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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 31284" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Deane-Drummond </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Anthony John (Tony)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ (Commanding Officer) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant Colonel </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>71076 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Order </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Oman 1959 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Corps of Signals</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 23.6.1917</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Colonel J.D. Deane-Drummond</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Marlborough</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated RMC Sandhurst</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned Royal Corps of Signals 1937</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>3 Division,France 1939-40</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 Commando</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>11 SAS Bn</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award M.C.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>POW February 1941 Italy</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>escaped to Switzerland June 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1st Airborne Divisional Signal Regiment (2IC) 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award bar to M.C. and Mention in Despatches</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff College,Camberley 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Brigade Major,a brigade,6th Airborne Division 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RMA Sandhurst (instructor) 1950-52</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Bn Parachute Regiment 1952-57 (company commander)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>CO 22 SAS 1957-60 (LtColonel)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GOC 44 Parachute Brigade (TA) 1961-63</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Assistant Commandant,RMA Sandhurst</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GOC 3rd Infantry Division 1966</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations),M.O.D.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired as Major General 1970</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>chief executive,Paper and Paper Products Training Board 1971-78</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>member,British gliding team (British champion 1957)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author "Return Ticket" (1951)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Evangeline Boyd 1944 (predeceased him) (4 daughters Shirley,Angela,Anne and Celia)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 4.12.2012 Alveston Leys Nursing Home,Stratford-upon-Avon,Warwickshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-deane-drummond.2889/" target="_blank"><em><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/2/2889-4696b1b3bc4f1eee64880b1724ff224f.jpg?1591383613" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></em></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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