Colonel DC Campbell-Miles MBE

Commanding Officer - The East Surrey Regiment & (The South Wales Borderers)

Commanded 2/6^th Bn The East Surrey Regiment from October 1942 to August 1943.

Denis Campbell Campbell-Miles was born on 1^st December 1903 and was educated at Ipswich. He was commissioned in The South Wales Borderers in August 1923 and joined the 1^st Battalion. From 1924 to 1929 he served with the 2^nd Battalion in India, Aden an d the UK. From May 1929 to January 1937 he was seconded to the Somaliland Camel Corps ( K A R) and was made a MBE in 1934. In 1937 he was adjutant of 2^nd Bn The South Wales Borderers and served in Norway in 1940. He attended Staff College and in 1942 was posted to 2/6^th Bn The East Surrey Regiment as 2 i/c and then commanded the Battalion from October 1942 to August 1943. In 1944-45 he commanded a Somaliland Battalion in Ceylon and Burma and was wounded in 1945. After other appointments he commanded 1^st Bn The South Wales Borderers from 1950 to 1952 and from 1952 to 1954 was Commandant of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall.

He retired from the Army on 6^th March 1955.

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