FRANKS, Brian Morton Forster
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Rank:
Colonel
Unit / Base:
Special Service (Commando) Group, Brigade, and Brigade Signals
'Special Air Service'
Regiment/Corps:
Middlesex Yeomanry
Royal Corps of Signals
Special Air Service Regiment
Service:
Army
Service Number:
89085
1943, Brigade Major, HQ, Special Service Brigade, Military Cross at Termoli, Italy.
1944, Lieutenant Colonel, 2 SAS, Distinguished Service Order, at Vosges, France.
24 January 1977 appointed Colonel Commandant, Special Air Service Regiment.
Member of the Commando Association from Suffolk.
Sources
London Gazette 36349, page 518 and 47154, page 2467.
Award Recommendations / National Archives files WO 373/4/237 and WO 373/52/653.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 75 (1982).
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