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The Special Air Service
By Philip Warner
Merrill's Marauders - The Road to Burma - The Illustrated Edition
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 29468" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>McLeod </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Roderick William </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ SAS Brigade (Commanding Officer) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>A/Brigadier </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>31581 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commander of the Order 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>Normandy 1944 (MiD) NW Europe 1944-45 (CBE) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Artillery</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 1905</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Wellington College</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RMA Woolwich</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned 1925 R.A.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served NW Frontier 1930-32</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GSO1 4 Infantry Division (Lt-Col)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Air Landing Light Regiment,R.A. (C.O.) (Lt-Col) 18.2.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>C.R.A. 1st Airborne Division 13.7.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Deputy C.O. 1st Parachute Brigade (Lt-Col)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GOC SAS Brigade January - December 1944 (Brig) (until 5.3.1945 in one source)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Director of Military Operations,India 6.3.1945 - 1947</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Assist Commandant,Staff College 1948</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>C.R.A. 7 Armoured Division 1950</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Director of Military Operations,War Office 1951</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chairman of the War Office Committee on Royal Signals Organisation</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>G.O.C. 6 Armoured Division 1955</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chief Army Instructor,Imperial Defence College 1957</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Deputy Chief of Defence Staff,M.O.D. 1957</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong 1960-61</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>G.O.C.-in-C. Eastern Command 1962</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired 2.1.1965 (LtGeneral)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awards G.B.E.,K.C.B.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 1980 </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/r-mcleod.15288/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/15/15288-167526bc64fad9dc3ed5eae34b3ec0aa.jpg?1591399387" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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