- SURNAME
Cary-Elwes
- FORENAME
Oswald Aloysius Joseph
- UNIT
HQ SAS Brigade (20 Liaison HQ)
- RANK
Major
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Mention in Despatches,Legion dHonneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre (Fr)
- PLACE
France 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Lincolnshire Regiment
born 14.11.1913
educated Ampleforth
RMC Sandhurst
commissioned Lincolnshire Regiment 1933
Brigade Major,Nigerian Brigade 1939
1st Army 1942
2 SAS 1943
HQ SAS Brigade 1944-45
Staff College,Camberley
British Military Mission,Paris
Lincolnshire Regiment
Assistant Military Attache,Cairo
French School of Infantry,St Maixent (instructor and liaison officer)
Lincolnshire Regiment 1955
SHAPE (Chief of C-in-C's secretariat) 1956
head of British Military Mission to C-in-C French Army,Germany
Commandant,Army School of Civil Defence
MOD
married Pamela Brendon 1938 (6 children)
died 1.1.1994
WEB LINKS:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7406830NATIONAL ARCHIVES:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7406830
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