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Two Para - Falklands: The Battalion at War
By John Frost
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By Tom Read
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 31171" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lea </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>George Harris </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Malayan Scouts SAS + 22 SAS (Commanding Officer) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major + Lieutenant Colonel </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>58116 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Order, Member of the British Empire, Mention in Despatches </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Malaya 1950-51 (MBE) Malaya 1956 (MiD) Malaya 1957 (DSO) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Lancashire Fusiliers</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 28.12.1912</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Charterhouse</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Sandhurst</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1933 commissioned Lancashire Fusiliers</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1940-41 Adjutant 1st Battalion</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2nd Command 151st Indian Parachute Regiment (service Egypt, Palestine, Tunisia & Italy)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1943 Brigade Major 4th Parachute Brigade</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>07.1944 Commander 11th Parachute Bn.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Operation Market Garden WIA and taken POW</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>44th Airborne Divisoon (GS01) in India</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>15th Parachute Battalion, Commander</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>12th Parachute Bn. (TA), Commander</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Seconded Royal Marines 3rd Commando Bde.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2nd Infantry Bde. Commander</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>War Office, Deputy Military Secretary </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1962 GOC, North West District</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GOC Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>C.O. 22 SAS 26.1.1955 - 1957</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1956 MiD</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1957 DSO</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1964 CB</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1967 KCB</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1948 married Pam (nee Lovett-Tayleur) </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 son & 2 daughters</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 1990 Aged 77</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-lea.2236/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/2/2236-06cdb2374d077a44eaa06b4c6904bb57.jpg?1591383444" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">[ATTACH=full]37271[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
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