- SURNAME
Armstrong
- FORENAME
Charles Douglas
- UNIT
SOE Military Mission to General Mihailovitch,Yugoslavia
- RANK
Brigadier
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- PLACE
WW2
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit East Surrey Regiment
born 11.6.1897
educated Cheltenham
graduated RMC Sandhurst
commissioned East Surrey Regiment (2Lt) 16.4.1915
201 Bn Machine Gun Corps 1916-18 (Lt)
WIA and WIA/POW March 1918
repatriated December 1918
served North Russia 1919 (award M.C.)
served India and Mesopotamia 1920-21
1 Bn East Surrey Regiment 1921-40
1/6 Bn East Surrey Regiment (C.O.) April 1940 - April 1942
award D.S.O. (for France)
70 (Young Soldiers) Bn
2 Bn Duke of Wellington's Regiment
WIA North Africa
Brigadier 1943
SOE Military Mission to Yugoslavia 1943-44
C.O. British Airborne Liaison Unit to the Polish Parachute Brigade June 1944
1 Bn East Surrey Regiment August 1945 - November 1946
C.O. a POW Camp in England May 1947 - 22.12.1948 (retired)
Mention in Despatches five times
nicknames Wix and Nipper
father of Judy Penelope Sylvia Armstrong
died 11.12.1985
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