title: Jock Haswell
text: # Jock Haswell
  
  Major Chetwynd John Drake "Jock" Haswell (18 July 1919 – 21 January 2018), who also wrote as George Foster, was a British military and intelligence author and former British intelligence officer. He was "Author for Service Intelligence" 1966–1984.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Haswell was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Little Appley Preparatory School and Winchester College.
  
  ## Career
  
  Haswell was trained at Sandhurst c. 1938/9 - 1941. He joined the Queen's Royal Regiment on 3 April 1941. Later in 1941 he was stationed in India, and saw local action. He was promoted Major on 3 July 1952, and retired from the army on 29 April 1960.
  
  Haswell's later work was mostly writing, continuing a thread from his military and intelligence work. He self-deprecatingly described his books as "holes held together with string". Nonetheless, his James II, for example, was reviewed in the Times of 29 July 1972 by Geoffrey Homes.
  
  He died on 21 January 2018 at the age of 98.
  
  