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Charles Herbert Stainforth CB

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(12 December 1914 – 22 March 2001) was General Officer Commanding Aldershot District.

Military career

Stainforth was commissioned into the

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in 1936 and fought in

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: he transferred to the

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in 1948. He also fought in

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being appointed an

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for his services there in 1955. In 1965, as a

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, he was appointed Chief of Staff at Southern Command. He became General Officer Commanding Aldershot District in 1966 and General Officer Commanding South East District in 1967. In 1969 he was invited to become Chairman of the Committee reviewing the UK Army Command Structure.Medals – Obituaries & Biographies
/ref> He retired later that year. He lived at Farnham in SurreyThe Peerage.com
/ref> and died in 2001 aged 86.

References

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