- SURNAME
Flavell
- FORENAME
Edwin William Conquest
- UNIT
1 Parachute Brigade (Commanding Officer)
- RANK
T/Brigadier
- NUMBER
48661
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order
- PLACE
North Africa 1942-43
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 22.2.1898
126 Machine Gun Company (WW1)
award M.C. and 2 bars
recalled to British Army 1941
2 Bn Parachute Regiment (C.O.) 1941-42
C.O. 1st Parachute Brigade 1942-43
C.O. 3rd Parachute Brigade 1943
C.O. 5th Parachute Brigade 1943
C.O. Airborne Establishments 1943
C.O. 6th Airlanding Brigade 1944-45
Deputy Chief of Staff,HQ 1st Allied Airborne Army 1945
award Legion of Merit (US) (for Ardennes 1945)
Deputy Lieutenant for Middlesex 1948
married Nora Cooper 1920 (3 children)
married Kathleen Fenton
died 1.12.1993
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