Norman Reddaway
George Frank Norman Reddaway was a British civil servant and Diplomat.
The younger son of William Fiddian Reddaway, Professor of History at Cambridge University, Norman Reddaway attended King's College School, and later gained a Double First in Modern Languages at Cambridge. He joined the British army as a private on the outbreak of war in 1939. He spent most of the wartime years with the GHQ Liaison Regiment, leaving in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1946, after serving with the Allied Control Commission, he joined the British Foreign Office.
Under Under-Secretary of State Christopher Mayhew, Reddaway co-founded the Information Research Department. Mayhew and Reddaway had served together in GHQ Liaison Regiment.
From 1974 to 1978, Reddaway was British Ambassador to Poland.Personal
also became an ambassador.
