About: John Le Rougetel

Sir John Helier Le Rougetel KCMG MC (19 June 1894 – 3 January 1975) was a British diplomat. Le Rougetel was educated at Rossall School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was commissioned into the Northamptonshire Regiment at the start of the First World War, joining its 3rd Battalion. He was awarded the Military Cross and Bar for his actions during the war, in which he served on the Western Front and was attached to the Machine Gun Corps. Le Rougtel joined the Foreign Office in 1920, and subsequently served in postings in Vienna, Budapest, Ottawa, Tokyo, Pekin, The Hague, Bucharest, Moscow, Shanghai. He was made a Second Secretary in 1923 and a First Secretary in 1930. He was in Shanghai during its occupation by the Japanese and was taken prisoner in 1942, although was later repatriated.