Major-General Roger Ellis Tudor St John, CB, MC (4 October 1911 – 15 October 1998) was a British Army officer.

Military career

Educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, St. John was commissioned into the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers on 27 August 1931. He served in the Second World War as brigade major for the 11th Armoured Division and, after the war, went on to become commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in 1953 and commander of 11th Infantry Brigade Group in 1957.

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He became colonel of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in October 1965.

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References

British Army major generals

1911 births

1998 deaths

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers officers

Companions of the Order of the Bath

Recipients of the Military Cross

British Army personnel of World War II

Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst

People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire

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