New Zealander - Brigadier George Clifton DSO,MC

I've just finished reading 'The Happy Hunted' by Brigadier George Herbert Clifton for the second time - an enlightening and entertaining read. Clifton served with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Greece and North Africa, was captured on the 4th of September 1942 at Matruh (he met Rommel twice - pre and post first escape attempt - the two had a couple of quirky conversations) and proceeded to attempt to escape no less than eight times throughout the course of his incarceration. He succeeded finally with the ninth in Germany, after which he found the American line and returned to service just as the war was coming to an end.

Can anyone tell me what happened to him after the war? I.e. what his post-war occupation was, where he resided, family, etc?

He's such a compelling character - I want to know more about him.

 

http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/36027.detail

 

Sorry - should have clarified - I've already done a google search and have come across this page. I was wondering whether anyone in the New Zealand RSA/military history community might know anything in addition.

Thanks.

 

Being ANZAC Day today, I have just been re-reading my father's memoirs from WW2, & came across Clifton's name, & Google led me to this forum. It sounds like he was a very interesting and experienced soldier, but my father didn't think much of him. Dad was shot in the arm ( a bad compound fracture) during the less-well- known battle at El Alamein on July 22, 1942. Dad was with some officers when the Brigadier arrived in his jeep to rescue them ( the officers ), but refused to allow my father into the jeep, telling the driver to "drive on", even when made aware of my father's situation. Dad was subsequently captured, nearly lost his arm ( thankfully saved by a captured English doctor, using maggots to clean up the infection ), & shipped off to a POW camp in Italy. After the Italians capitulated, he spent 7 months "on the loose", helping other soldiers & airmen get back into Switzerland....but that's another story.
I guess "great men" have to be ruthless at times, but Brig. Clifton almost got my father killed, so I'll choose to reserve my praise for his achievements.