Corran Purdon

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Corran William Brooke Purdon , CBE , MC , CPM ( May 4, 1921 - June 27, 2018 ) was a British major general .

Life

After attending Campbell Borneo College, Purdon completed an officer training course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) and was accepted as a lieutenant in the Royal Ulster Rifles infantry regiment in 1939 . During the Second World War he took part in combat missions in Norway and France between 1940 and 1942 before he was taken prisoner by Germany in 1942 . After his liberation at the end of World War II, he returned to the Royal Ulster Rifles and was used in their 1st Battalion in Palestine until 1946 . He was later an officer in the Army Headquarters in the Middle East (Middle East Land Forces) between 1949 and 1951 and a staff officer during the Darurat Malaya , the state of emergency in the Malaya Federation from 1956 to 1958 .

Purdon then found employment in 1958 as a company commander in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles and then between 1962 and 1963 as the commander of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles, which was now part of the British Army of the Rhine . He was then used from 1963 to 1964 as commander of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles in Borneo . After his return he was a general staff officer and chief instructor of the Infantry School in Warminster between 1965 and 1967 and then from 1967 to 1967 commander of the armed forces of the Sultan of Oman and director of operations during the civil war in Oman, the so-called " Dhofar uprising ".

Thereupon Purdon acted between 1970 and 1972 as commander of the Warminster Infantry School and in personal union as commander of the SASC (Small Arms School Corps) training corps . He then served from 1972 to 1974 commander ( General Officer Commanding ) who emerged the northwestern district from the 1972 resolved West commands. Most recently he was Commander of the Near East Land Forces in 1974 and held this post until his retirement in 1976. For his services he was Commander of the Order of the British Empire and also received the Military Cross (MC ) and the Colonial Police Medal (CPM).

publication

  • List the bugle. Reminiscences of an Irish soldier , Greystone, Antrim, 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. In: legacy.com. July 3, 2018, accessed on July 12, 2018 .
  2. ^ Major-General Corran Purdon obituary. In: thetimes.co.uk. July 6, 2018, accessed on July 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Purdon, Corran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Purdon, Corran William Brooke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Major General
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1921
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2018