Michael Walsh (General)
Michael John Hatley Walsh (born June 10, 1927 in Harrogate , Yorkshire - † October 13, 2015 ) was a British major general and between 1982 and 1988 Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories of the Boy Scout Association in the United Kingdom.
Life
Michael Walsh has attended two independent schools: the Clifton House School in Harrogate , Yorkshire and the Sedbergh School in Cumbria . He was a member of the local Scout Troop.
Walsh joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1944 . In the winter of 1946-47 he was in Italy used to Trieste against Tito's partisans to defend. In November 1956, during the Suez Crisis, he was tasked with capturing El Gamil Airfield near Port Said as part of Operation Musketeer .
He was Honorary President of the Society of Knights of the Round Table from 1988 to 1995 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Major General Michael John Hatley Walsh (b.1927), CB. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: bbc.co.uk , BBC News (English).
- ↑ Michael JH Walsh, British Army general, Died at 88 . ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: deadfamous.info , 2015, accessed on October 18, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walsh, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walsh, Michael John Hatley (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harrogate , Yorkshire , England , United Kingdom |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 2015 |