Keenlyside, Richard Headlam

Date of birth:: May 1909
Date of death:: 1998
Service number:: 41146
Nationality:: British

Biography

Richard Keenlyside was commissioned in the Royal Artillery as a 2nd Lieutenant in January 1929, advanced to Lieutenant in January 1932 and to Captain in August 1938.
Appointed a Brigade Major in February 1940, he was mentioned in despatches in December of the same year, presumably for services with the B.E.F. or possibly in Norway. He subsequently served in the Middle East until early 1943, gaining advancement to Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, and, after joining Allied Forces H.Q. back in the U.K., went on to serve with distinction in the North West Europe operations 1944-45.

Post-war, Keenlyside was employed as a G.S.O. 1 (Intelligence) at H.Q., B.A.O.R. in the early 1950s, when he gained advancement to substantive Lieutenant-Colonel, and as a G.S.O. 1, Far East Land Forces (F.A.R.E.L.F.) 1955-57, in which latter year he was gazetted for the C.B.E. His final appointment was as C.R.A. London Infantry Division (T.A.) 1958-61, in which latter year he retired in the rank of Brigadier.

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