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A British Army Oficer who was a platoon commander in the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, on D-Day tasked to seize Horsa Bridge and Pegasus Bridge before the main assault on the Normandy beaches began and the following day he was awarded the Military Cross for rescuing a wounded member of his platoon while under heavy fire. He also served in the Ardennes and the Netherlands, the landings over the Rhine and in the advance across Germany to the Baltic sea. In October 1945 the battalian were posted to Palestine during the Palestine Emergency and he later commanded the 1st Green Jackets at Penang during the Brunei Revolt and Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation. |
