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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 31367" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Simpson </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John James Hope </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Director of SAS and Commander SAS Group </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Brigadier </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></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 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1976 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Gordon Highlanders</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 10.10.1927 Trinidad</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Queen's Royal College,Trinidad</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Cambridge University</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted 1945 Coldstream Guards</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned Gordon Highlanders 1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Mention in Despatches (Malaya 1950s)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain 22 SAS 1960s</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff College (instructor) 1965-68 (LtCol)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Brunei Malay Regiment (C.O.) 1969</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commander Brunei Armed Forces (Colonel)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Dato (knight) of the Order of the Star of Brunei</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff,HQ UK Land Forces</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Director of SAS and Commander SAS Group 1972-75</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ministry of Defence</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>left Army 1979</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Jocelyn Drysdale 1955 (3 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 7.3.2007 </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-simpson.3587/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/3/3587-63d59ffb292fa71c885b2176b65fd1b0.jpg?1591383795" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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