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Lt. Colonel John (Jean) Eugène de Salis, 8th Count de Salis, FRGS, ''Graf v. Salis-Soglio'',〔''Der Grafliche Hauser'', Band XI (11 ), ''Genealogisches Handbuch Des Adels'', C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1983 (pps 331–356)〕 ( *Brussels 4 October 1891–†London 12 June 1949), eldest son of Sir John Francis Charles de Salis, KCMG, CVO, 7th Count de Salis, of the Holy Roman Empire, of Lough Gur House, Monasteranenagh, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, and the Grisons, Switzerland. His mother, a descendant of Philipe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot (of the House of Croÿ), Pierre-Paul Riquet and both Émilie Pellapra and Thérésa Tallien, whom his father had married in Brussels on 6 December 1890, was Hélène Marie de Riquet, Comtesse de Caraman-Chimay (Château de Ménars 18 August 1864 – Bruxelles 31 May 1902). The eldest daughter of Marie Eugène Auguste de Riquet, Prince de Caraman-Chimay (Ménars 1847–Chimay 1881), (son of 17th Prince de Chimay), by Louise de Graffenried-Villars (1842–1901), she died aged 37, when John her eldest son was still only 10, a mere 13 days after the birth of her third son. De Salis succeeded his father 37 years later in 1939, in the meantime he had been made and given a Bailiff Grand Cross, Order of Malta; the Order of the Crown of Roumania; a Chevalier Legion of Honour; and a Montenegrin Military Medal/Silver medal for bravery (1918). He was educated at Jesuit Beaumont College and read modern history at Balliol College, Oxford 1910–1914, (4th class BA 1914, MA 1917). At Oxford he won the Officers' Training Corps' Company and Long Range Cups, and the Officers' Challenge Cup; was in the Snap-shooting team; won 2nd prize, Half-section Jumping, O.T.C. v Cambridge; was in the Oxford University Fencing Club (Sabres) v. Cambridge in 1913 and 1914. The 1914 ''varsity'' match was held at Tassart's Salle D'Armes, Oxford Circus, London. Tickets were 2/6.〔OUFC history, 2012〕〔''Balliol College Register'', 1900–1950, edited by Sir Ivo Elliott, Bt, 1953〕 ==Soldier & Diplomat== Served in WWI, the European War 1914–19, in 1st Life Guards and Irish Guards (Lt. September 1914), twice wounded, 15 September 1916 and July 1917;〔''The Irish Guards in the Great War, Edited and Compiled from Their Diaries and Papers'', Volume II, The Second Battalion and Appendicies, 1923, by Rudyard Kipling, http://www.telelib.com/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/IrishGuardsv2/appendixa.html〕 Captain on special service in the Balkans. Attached British Embassy, Paris, as an assistant to military attaché, 1918–19 (specially attached to Marshal Joffre);〔The Times, 30 June 1919, describes Joffre's departure from London: 'Marshal Joffre, accompanied by Commandant Blanchard and Commandant Gillot, and Captain Count de Salis, of the Irish Guards, who had been specially attached to the Marshal's staff during his stay in this country, left the Ritz Hotel shortly before 8.30 on Saturday morning in a Royal motor-car for Victoria Station, leaving there by the 8.50 boat train for France...''〕 entered Diplomatic Service, 1920; appointed 3rd Secretary, Washington; transferred Tokyo, 1921–22. Aide-de-Camp to the Earl of Lytton when Governor of Bengal, 1925–27; Adjutant Indian Army Rifle Team, 1927–29; Commandant Indian Army Rifle Team, Bisley,〔Kelly's Handbook, 1936, page 579〕 1930–34.〔Who's Who〕 Delegate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem for revision of Geneva Convention 1929.〔Who's Who〕 Served War of 1939–45; Captain on Military Mission under War Cabinet Office: France 1939–40, here Captain Count John de Salis was drafted last minute, replacing a Captain Purvis, nominally as the HRH the Duke of Windsor's translator for his controversial trip to France in October 1939 and in co-writing his Report on Visit to the First French Army and Detachments D'Army des Ardennes. Writing in 2012 in his book ''The Duke of Windsor's War'', Michael Bloch describing this expedition speaks of: ''the brilliant and subtle de Salis'', as ''a delightful secret service diplomatist with cosmopolitan connections who, by an extraordinary coincidence, had known the Duchess (then Mrs Earl Winfield Spencer) while attached to the Washington Embassy in the early 1920s.''〔''The Duke of Windsor's War'', Michael Bloch, Hachette, 2012〕 They set off on 6 October 1939, the party comprised: five staff, Fruity Metcalfe, de Salis and the Duke.〔''Hidden Agenda: How the Duke of Windsor Betrayed the Allies'', 2002, by Martin Allen, (pages 129–131, 133, 154, 188)〕 Later in WW2 he was Senior Civil Affairs Officer (SCAO) for Asmara and Hamasien, Eritrea, 1943–44; Lt. Col.; Aide-de-Camp to Field Marshal Lord Alexander, who was commander-in-chief of the British forces in the campaign for the liberation of Italy from 1943 to 1945. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Eugène, 8th Count de Salis-Soglio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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