Richard Hugh (Dick) Barry
born 9.11.1908
son of LtCol Alfred Percival Barry
educated Winchester (Cook's House)
educated RMC Sandhurst 1927
commissioned Somerset Light Infantry 1929
instructor,small arms school,Netheravon
Staff College 1938 (Captain)
War Office (Intelligence Branch) 1939
B.E.F. 1940
Army Intelligence School,Minley Manor 1940
SOE 1941
SOE Operations Section (in charge)
GSO1,planning staff of General Eisenhower for Op.Torch 1942
SOE again
Chief of Staff SOE from September 1943-summer 1946
Military Attache,Stockholm 1946
Deputy Chief of Staff,Western Europe Land Forces 1948-52
Director of the Standing Group of NATO 1952-54
Chief of Staff,British Troops in Egypt 1954-56
Imperial Defence College
British Representative,Standing Group of the North Atlantic Council (Major General)
retired 1962
resided Corridor House,Odiham
joint Master of the Hampshire Hunt
married Rosalind Joyce Evans 1940 (3 children) (died 1973)
married Elizabeth Lucia Middleton 1975 (died 1994)
died 30.4.1999 near Alton,Hampshire
