Charles Jocelyn Hambro (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Air Commodore Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro, KBE, MC (3 October 1897 - 1963) was a merchant banker and intelligence officer. He was born into a banking family of Danish origin which had settled in Dorset and the City of London in the early 19th century. He was the son of Charles Eric Hambro, a partner in C. J. Hambro & Son (later to become Hambros Bank) and a Conservative Member of Parliament for Wimbledon between 1900 and 1907. Between 1910 and 1915 Charles was educated at Eton College, joining the cricket team in 1914 and becoming the Captain in 1915. After leaving he immediately went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, being made an Ensign in the Coldstream Guards in 1916. He was immediately posted to the Western Front, serving for two years until demobilisation and being awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous bravery in action.