Tim Heywood
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Geoffrey Beresford Heywood MBE DL (July 12, 1914-June 15, 2006), known as Tim Heywood, was a soldier and bureaucrat. He served as the chief signals officer of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) in the Second World War. In later life, he was president of the Country Landowners' Association (CLA) and founder president of the European Landowners' Association. Heywood was born in Newcastle. His father was a stockbroker. He was educated at Eton, where he built radios in his spare time. He became an accountant, and was commissioned into the Royal Corps of ...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Geoffrey Beresford Heywood MBE DL (July 12, 1914-June 15, 2006), known as Tim Heywood, was a soldier and bureaucrat. He served as the chief signals officer of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) in the Second World War. In later life, he was president of the Country Landowners' Association (CLA) and founder president of the European Landowners' Association. Heywood was born in Newcastle. His father was a stockbroker. He was educated at Eton, where he built radios in his spare time. He became an accountant, and was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals (Middlesex Yeomanry) in 1939. His regiment was sent to Palestine with the 1st Cavalry Division in 1940. He volunteered to join the Long Range Desert Group and was interviewed by Major Ralph Bagnold and Captain Bill Shaw in Cairo. He joined the LRDG and became its chief signals officer in August 1941, in charge of its special radio equipment, its codes, and the communications group atthe Group's headquarters. After fighting for three years in North Africa, and a spell in Lebanon and the Greek islands, the Group moved to Bari in south Italy, from which it raided Corfu and operated in the Dalmatian islands and Yugoslavia.
