- SURNAME
Firth
- FORENAME
Anthony Denis (Tony)
- UNIT
2 Bn Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (23 Bde) (Staff 76 column)
- RANK
Lieutenant
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Member of the British Empire
- PLACE
Burma 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 29.5.1919 Cambridge
son of Captain Denis Firth,Duke of Wellington's Regiment
educated Christ's Hospital,Horsham
RMC Sandhurst
2 Bn D.W.Regiment prewar - 1944
Far Eastern Warfare School,Tunbridge Wells (instructor)
Staff,Malta
Staff College,Camberley
1 Bn (B Coy) D.W.Regiment 1953
award M.C. for Korea 1953
O.C. 1 Bn D.W.Regiment 1960-61
advanced to O.B.E. 1961
Assistant Military Adviser,British High Commission,Ottawa,Canada
GOC 127 Infantry Brigade (TA) (Brigadier)
retired 1968
married Alec "Alex" Temple-Phillips 1950 (1 daughter)
died 4.7.2002
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