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Rest in Peace
The Colonels of The Regiment
GOLDSMITH, Robert
Burrell Frederick Kinglake (1907-1995), Major General
- Colonel of the Regiment 1960 to 1963 - Joined Duke of
Cornwall's Light Infantry 1927; World War II in North
Africa, Italy and North West Europe 1939-1945; General
Staff Officer Grade 3 1939; General Staff Officer Grade
2 1939-1941; General Staff Officer Grade 1 with Airborne
Forces 1942-1944; Deputy Chief of Staff, 1 Allied Airborne
Army 1944-1945; General Staff Officer Grade 1 1946-1949;
Commander, 131 Infantry Bde 1950-1951; Chief of Staff,
Headquarters British Troops in Egypt 1951-1954; Deputy
Director of Personal Services 1954-1956; Chief of Staff,
Headquarters Western Command 1956-1959; Col Duke of Cornwall's
Light Infantry 1958-1959; General Officer Commanding Catterick
Area and Yorkshire District 1959-1962; retired 1962; Col
Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry 1960-1963; Editor,
Army Quarterly 1966-1973
FIRBANK, Cecil Llewelyn
(1903-1985), Major General - Colonel of the Regiment 1963
to 1968 - Joined 1 Somerset Light Infantry 1924; seconded
to West African Frontier Force 1929-1934; 2 Somerset Light
Infantry 1934-1937; 4 Somerset Light Infantry 1937-1942;
World War II 1939-1946; Commander, 2 Bn Lincolnshire Regt,
North West Europe 1944-1945; Commander, 71 Infantry Bde
1945-1946; Commander, 160 Infantry Bde 1946; Staff College
1947-1948; Commandant, School of Infantry, Warminster
1948-1951; General Officer Commanding, South West District
and 43 Wessex Div (Territorial Army) 1951-1954; Director
of Infantry, War Office 1955-1958; Honorary Col, 4/5 Somerset
Light Infantry (Territorial Army) 1955-1960; retired 1959;
Honorary Col, North Somerset Yeomanry 1959-1964; Director,
Civil Defence for Wales 1960-1965; Col, Somerset and Cornwall
Light Infantry 1963-1968
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