Sam Falle

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Sir Sam Falle KCMG KCVO DSC (born 19 February 1919) is a retired British diplomat who was Ambassador to Kuwait and Sweden and High Commissioner to Singapore and Nigeria.

Career

Samuel Falle was educated at Victoria College, Jersey. He served in the Royal Navy 1937–48 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross "for gallantry in the face of overwhelming odds whilst serving in H.M.S. Encounter during her last action in the Java Sea on 1st March, 1942".[1] Encounter had taken part in the Second Battle of the Java Sea, suffered major damage and was scuttled by her crew. They were subsequently rescued by the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Ikazuchi commanded by Shunsaku Kudō. Falle spent the next three and a half years as a prisoner of war.

Falle joined the Foreign Service in 1948[2] and served at Shiraz, Tehran, Beirut and Baghdad. He was Consul-General at Gothenburg 1961–63, head of the UN department at the Foreign Office 1963–67 and accompanied Lord Shackleton on a mission to Aden in 1967. He was deputy High Commissioner at Kuala Lumpur 1967–69, ambassador to Kuwait 1969–70,[3] High Commissioner to Singapore 1970–74, ambassador to Sweden 1974–77,[4] and High Commissioner to Nigeria 1977–78. He then retired from the Diplomatic Service and joined the European Commission, becoming EC delegate to Algeria 1979–82, then working as a consultant on development aid in Africa including evaluation of EEC aid to Zambia 1983–84, and Swedish aid to Swaziland in 1986.

Falle was appointed CMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1964,[5] knighted KCVO in 1972[6] and given the additional knighthood of KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1979.[7] The King of Sweden made him a Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star in 1975.

Publications

  • My Lucky Life : In War, Revolution, Peace and Diplomacy (autobiography), Book Guild, Lewes, 1996. ISBN 1857761219

References

  • FALLE, Sir Sam, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
  1. ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 25 January 1946
  2. ↑ The London Gazette, 29 January 1952
  3. ↑ The London Gazette, 27 February 1969
  4. ↑ The London Gazette, 1 October 1974
  5. ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 13 June 1964
  6. ↑ The London Gazette, 9 May 1972
  7. ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 30 December 1978
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Geoffrey Arthur		 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Kuwait
1969–1970 		Succeeded by
Sir John Wilton
Preceded by
Sir Arthur de la Mare		 High Commissioner to Singapore
1970–1974 		Succeeded by
Peter Tripp
Preceded by
Sir Guy Millard		 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Stockholm
1974–1977 		Succeeded by
Sir Jeffrey Petersen
Preceded by
Sir Martin Le Quesne		 High Commissioner to Nigeria
1977–1978 		Succeeded by
Sir Mervyn Brown
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