PARAS 2 Crook, Paul Edwin

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Crook
  • FORENAME
Paul Edwin
  • UNIT
3 Para (Commanding Officer)
  • RANK
Lieutenant Colonel
  • NUMBER
  • AWARD
Distinguished Service Order
  • PLACE
Suez 1956
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 19.4.1915 Croydon,Surrey
eldest son of Herbert and Christine Crook
educated Uppingham
graduated Emmanuel College,Cambridge 1936
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1936 (2Lt) (1 and 2 Bns)
Adjutant regimental Depot 1939
Staff,West Africa 1942-44
Brigade Major,147 Infantry Brigade 1944
awarded Mention in Despatches,Bronze Star (US) (Normandy)
HQ Allied Land Forces South East Asia 1945
awarded O.B.E.
Queen's Royal West Kent Regiment
awarded Mention in Despatches (Malaya 1952)
Military Assistant to C-in-C Far East Land Forces 1953-54
3 Bn Parachute Regiment (C.O.) 1954-57
Chief of Staff Jamaica Defence Force 1962
awarded C.B.E. (Jamaica 1965)
ADC to the Queen 1965
Security Operations Adviser,British High Commissioner,Aden 1966-67
Commander of Rhine Area 1968-71
left Army 1971 as Brigadier
married Joan Lewis 1944 (dissolved 1967) (1 daughter)
married Betty Wyles
died 20.10.2004
London Gazette 41092, 4th June 1957, Page 3419
 
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