- SURNAME
McLeod
- FORENAME
Roderick William
- UNIT
HQ SAS Brigade (Commanding Officer)
- RANK
A/Brigadier
- NUMBER
31581
- AWARD
Commander of the Order of the British Empire,Mention in Despatches
- PLACE
Normandy 1944 (MiD) NW Europe 1944-45 (CBE)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Artillery
born 1905
educated Wellington College
RMA Woolwich
commissioned 1925 R.A.
served NW Frontier 1930-32
GSO1 4 Infantry Division (Lt-Col)
1 Air Landing Light Regiment,R.A. (C.O.) (Lt-Col) 18.2.1943
C.R.A. 1st Airborne Division 13.7.1943
Deputy C.O. 1st Parachute Brigade (Lt-Col)
GOC SAS Brigade January - December 1944 (Brig) (until 5.3.1945 in one source)
Director of Military Operations,India 6.3.1945 - 1947
Assist Commandant,Staff College 1948
C.R.A. 7 Armoured Division 1950
Director of Military Operations,War Office 1951
Chairman of the War Office Committee on Royal Signals Organisation
G.O.C. 6 Armoured Division 1955
Chief Army Instructor,Imperial Defence College 1957
Deputy Chief of Defence Staff,M.O.D. 1957
Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong 1960-61
G.O.C.-in-C. Eastern Command 1962
retired 2.1.1965 (LtGeneral)
awards G.B.E.,K.C.B.
died 1980
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