Noel Stephen Paynter
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Noel Stephen Paynter | |
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Nickname(s) | Peter |
Born | Companion of the Order of the Bath Order of Saint Anna (Russia) | 26 December 1898
Other work | MI5 |
Family
Noel Stephen Paynter had been born in Essex where his father, Canon F S Paynter, was rector of Springfield. But the family has a long history in West Cornwall, with a coat of arms dating from the 16th century and a place in Burke's Landed Gentry.[1] He married Barbara Grace, daughter of artist Fredereick Hans Haagensen of London. They had two children, Francis and Rosemary. His brother Charles Theodore Paynter (Lieutenant, R.N.) was killed in HMS North Star when it was sunk in 1918 by coastal artillery near Zeebrugge.[2]
Military career
Paynter had been carefully chosen for the post in 1942 after spending the previous three years as head of
Paynter acquired the nickname 'Peter' while at Haileybury — and was never known by any other name thereafter. He went from school to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned briefly into the Essex Regiment before being transferred to the Royal Flying Corps.
Paynter served as a young pilot on the Western front in the later stages of the First World War, then took part in the expedition to Russia in the turmoil following the Bolshevik Revolution. He never forgot the atrocities which were being committed by both the Red and
Paynter spent much of the 1920s as a pilot in the
References
- ^ Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry by Bernard Burke – Heraldry – 1965 (Page 706)
- ^ http://users.qld.chariot.net.au/~caffin_da/paynter/theop01.htm