HARPER-GOW, Leonard Maxwell
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Title:
Sir
Known as:
Max
Rank:
Major
Unit / Base:
12 Commando
Special Service (Commando) Group, Brigade, and Brigade Signals
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Service Number:
130210
Honours & Awards:
Born:
Thursday, June 13, 1918
Died :
Monday, January 1, 1996
Place died or last resided:
Edinburgh
Age:
77
Commissioned 30 April 1940. Service included No.12 Commando and HQ 1 Special Service Brigade. Member of the Commando Association.
1944 Married Lillan Kiaer.
1944 Staff Captain, HQ 1 Special Service Brigade, during Operation Overlord at Normandy.
1945 - appointed M.B.E. (Military Divsion).
1985 Deputy Chairman, Christian Salvesen Ltd., appointed Knight Bachelor
Sources
Commission - London Gazette 34841, page 2622.
MBE - London Gazette 36917, page 673 and National Archives file WO373/83/266.
KB - London Gazette 50154, page 1.
Commando Association newsletter 81 (1985) and Obituaries in newsletter 102 (1996).
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