Rifle Brigade → SAS → CSD (sec. 1947). Commanded Task Force LION on LD-001. The Commonwealth's blunt instrument; the Commonwealth's best argument for itself.
Rifle Brigade; North Africa from 1940.
Burma; attached SAS.
Kenya, Mau Mau insurgency through 1952.
Recruited to CSD by H. Vane.
Malayan Emergency; SAS, 1952–55.
Commander, Task Force LION — Operation LD-001.
→ OPS-001Married Dr. Catherine Wyndham · October.
Son Alexander James born; named in part for M. Thompson (KIA).