Lt Col J R Armstrong-MacDonnell MC

Commanding Officer - The East Surrey Regiment

Commanded 1^st Bn The East Surrey Regiment from November 1953 to May 1956.

John Randal Armstrong-MacDonnell was born on 11^th December 1911 and was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne and the RMC Sandhurst. He was commissioned in The East Surrey Regiment in August 1931 and served with the 2^nd Battalion in UK from 1931 to 1933 when he was posted to the 1^st Battalion in India.

He served with that Battalion in Lahore, Fyzabad and Waziristan. In 1936 he was appointed Field Treasure Chest Officer and rejoined the 1^st Battalion for the move to Khartoum. In 1938 he was adjutant of the Depot and in 1940 was posted to the 2/6^th Battalion with whom he served in France and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry.

At the fall of France he became a prisoner of war. 1946 he attended the Staff College, Camberley and was posted to the Military Secretary's Department, Egypt. In 1948 (he was appointed D A A ( East Africa Command and in 1949 joined 1^st Bn The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment at Shorncliffe. In 1951 he became GSO I Infantry Directorate at the War Office and commanded 1^st Bn The East Surrey Regiment from November 1953 to May 1956.

He retired from the Army on 29^th December 1957

He died on October 21^st 2000

For obituary see QRSNL November 2000 page 53

 

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