- SURNAME
Lloyd Owen
- FORENAME
David Lanyon
- UNIT
LRDG Y2 Patrol + C.O. LRDG
- RANK
Lieutenant + Lieutenant Colonel
- NUMBER
74596
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross
- PLACE
North Africa 1942 (MC) Aegean and Adriatic 1943-45 (DSO)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit 2 Bn Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (commissioned 1938)
born 10.10.1917 Hampton, Middlesex
educated Winchester & Sandhurst
joined LRDG September 1941
09.1942 WIA
later Commanding Officer 1943-1945
1954 OBE
1957 married Ursula Barclay (3 sons)
1971 CB
author of 2 memoirs
"The Desert my Dwelling Place"(1957)
"Providence Their Guide"(1980)
died 5.4.2001 (Aged 83)
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