#12392, David MORLEY-FLETCHER

David Morley-Fletcher was educated at Stowe in Buckinghamshire and Trinity College, Cambridge (MA). He was awarded an OBE in 1951.

David was one of the original ninety-nine boys in the first term of Stowe school, September 1923. He left Stowe in July 1928. During WWII, David arrived in Sicily shortly after the allied landings in July 1943; he spent the first six months in the town of Mussomeli, where he oversaw the daily management of sixteen townships under the organisation of the Allied Military Government (AMG). Between March and August 1944, he was based in Catania. From April 1945, he was Provincial Commissioner for the AMG in Bergermo, Lombardy. He was Regional Director of the United Nations Refugee Relief Programme in Venice during 1946; Administrative Staff College, 1947; Senior Regional Director, Colonial Development Corporation, 1948-51; Chilanga Cement Ltd, 1950-54; Secretary to the Lord Mayor of London, 1956-57 and later with Associated Industrial Consultants.

He died at home from a heart attack.

Taken from the family records of Robert (Robin) Morley Fletcher (1935-2015)

Vanessa Griffith (March 2018)