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C.Q.B. (Close Quarter Battle)
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Shadows in the Fog: The True Story of Major Suttill and the Prosper French Resistance Network
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 28997" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Purdon </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Corran William Brooke</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>12 Commando </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong><br /> 112917</li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Military Cross </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>St Nazaire 1942 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Ulster Rifles </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 4.5.1921 Queenstown,Co.Cork</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Major-General W.B. Purdon</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Campbell College,Belfast</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Royal Military College,Sandhurst 31.12.1939 </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Ulster Rifles (2Lt )</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WIA and POW 29.8.1942 St Nazaire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>liberated 16.4.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Ulster Rifles (6th Airborne Division)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served in Palestine</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff College 1955</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GHQ Far East Land Forces,Singapore</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Ulster Rifles (C.O.) 1964</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served in Borneo</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces (Brigadier)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded C.B.E. 1970</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commandant,School of Infantry,Warminster</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GOC Near East Land Forces,Cyprus 1974</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired 1976 as Major General</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Deputy Commissioner of Police,Royal Hong Kong Police Force</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded Colonial Police Medal 1981</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Patricia Petrie 1945 (2 sons Patrick and Tim,1 daughter Angela) (predeceased him)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Jean Otway 2009</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 27.6.2018</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-purdon.20861/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/20/20861-57f7cc6630b6afb2396d6e159e9f4929.jpg?1591400886" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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