Francis Rome
Francis Rome | |
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order |
CBE, DSO (11 September 1905 – 7 February 1985) was a senior officer in the British Army who served as Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin
from 1956 to 1959.
Military career
Rome was
16th Airborne Division in 1953 and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1956; he retired in 1959.[1] He also served as colonel of the Royal Fusiliers.[2]
Family
In 1936 Rome married Sybil Parry Carden.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ^ "Royal Fusiliers colonels". British Empire. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
- ^ The Peerage.com