ARMY CDOS Purdon, Corran William Brooke

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Purdon
  • FORENAME
Corran William Brooke
  • UNIT
12 Commando
  • RANK
Lieutenant
  • NUMBER
    112917

  • AWARD
Military Cross
  • PLACE
St Nazaire 1942
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Ulster Rifles
born 4.5.1921 Queenstown,Co.Cork
son of Major-General W.B. Purdon
educated Campbell College,Belfast
graduated Royal Military College,Sandhurst 31.12.1939
Royal Ulster Rifles (2Lt )
WIA and POW 29.8.1942 St Nazaire
liberated 16.4.1945
Royal Ulster Rifles (6th Airborne Division)
served in Palestine
Staff College 1955
GHQ Far East Land Forces,Singapore
Royal Ulster Rifles (C.O.) 1964
served in Borneo
Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces (Brigadier)
awarded C.B.E. 1970
Commandant,School of Infantry,Warminster
GOC Near East Land Forces,Cyprus 1974
retired 1976 as Major General
Deputy Commissioner of Police,Royal Hong Kong Police Force
awarded Colonial Police Medal 1981
married Patricia Petrie 1945 (2 sons Patrick and Tim,1 daughter Angela) (predeceased him)
married Jean Otway 2009
died 27.6.2018
 
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