Desmond Cecil Robert Warren

1895 Apr 21. Born 71 Stephens Green, Dublin

1901 Census at St Stephen's Green , Dublin

1911 census At a boarding school in Nerquis, Flintshire, Wales

1915 Jul 5. Commissioned 2nd Lt in Army Service Corps

1919 Feb 17 Acting Captain RASC

1919 Nov 5. Relinquishes the acting rank of Captain

Receives Military MBE of Derrintovey, Carrickmines, Dublin. Oddly there are no announcements, and he never appears to use the letters after his name

I think that he got the award earlier, and this was just to receive it

1929 Aug 13. Married in London to Violet Arabella Lasbrey , b1903 in Istanbul, Turkey (Ancestry Tree) daughter of Frederick Oakley Lasbrey who was a missionary doctor with the Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.) in Egypt, where he became the medical superintendent of the Old Cairo Mission Hospital. After 30 years in Egypt, Frederick returned to Edinburgh in 1929 to become superintendent and secretary of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. He retired from this post in 1938, and became a G.P. in Wethersfield, Essex

They had 3 children

1939 Census He is a Dairy Farmer living with Violet A Warren in Manor Farm, Chard, Somerset. Correct dob His wife was born 1903

1985 Feb 16. Died at 7 La Touche Close, Greystones, Wicklow, Ireland

 

British Intelligence in Ireland

WO 339/31720