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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 40789" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Caldwell </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Frank Griffiths (Griff)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ SAS Brigade </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain (T/Major) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>125197 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Member of the Order of the British Empire,Croix de Guerre avec palme (Bel),Croix Militaire 1st Class (Bel)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>NW Europe 1944-45 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Engineers</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 26.2.1921 Guernsey</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Elizabeth College,Guernsey</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RMA Woolwich (Gentleman Cadet) August 1939 (1 week)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>OCTU RE</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned 2Lt RE 9.3.1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 Field Squadron RE 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded M.C. and bar,Mention in Despatches for North Africa 1940-41 (2Lt + Lt)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>attached British Embassy,Ankara</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Force 133 SOE 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ SAS Brigade (18 months) 1944-45 (Captain T/Major)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awards MBE,Croix de Guerre avec palme (Bel),Croix Militaire 1st Class (Bel)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Intelligence HQ Malaya (GSO2) 1951 (Major)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>advanced to OBE for Malaya</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>26 Armoured Engineer Squadron,RE (C.O.) 1954-56</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>War Office</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Directing Staff,Camberley</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>CRE 2 Divisional HQ BAOR</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Assistant Adjutant General Director of Manning,War Office</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>CRE HQ 1 (British) Corps BAOR (Brigadier) 1967</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Director of Defence Operational Plans,MOD 1970</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Engineer-in-Chief (Army) 1971 (Major General)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Assistant Chief of the General Staff (Operational Requirements 1972</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired as Major General 1974</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>company director and consultant</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>notable ornitholigist</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>founded the Army Bird Watching Society</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>settled in Guernsey</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Betty Palmer Buesden 1945 (predeceased him) (2 children Philip and Anne)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 22.11.2014</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/f-caldwell.21959/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/21/21959-c69a8e7e90ad3ba5f5709e1d03b3d48b.jpg?1591401171" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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