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

British Army The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...

officer.

Military career

Educated at

Wellington College, Berkshire Wellington College is a co-educational public school providing education for boarding and day pupils in the village of Crowthorne, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. Wellington is a registered charity and currently educates roughly 1,100 pu ...

and the

Royal Military College, Sandhurst The Royal Military College (RMC) was a United Kingdom, British military academy for training infantry and cavalry Officer (armed forces), officers of the British Army, British and British Indian Army, Indian Armies. It was founded in 1801 at Gre ...

, St. John was commissioned into the

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was an infantry regiment of the British Army. Raised in 1674 as one of three 'English' units in the Dutch Anglo-Scots Brigade, it accompanied William III to England in the November 1688 Glorious Revolution and ...

on 27 August 1931. He served in the

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as brigade major for the

11th Armoured Division The 11th Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army which was created in March 1941 during the Second World War. The division was formed in response to the unanticipated success of the German panzer divisions. The 11th Armour ...

and, after the war, went on to become commanding officer of the 1st Battalion

in 1953 and commander of 11th Infantry Brigade Group in 1957. He became colonel of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in October 1965.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:St John, Roger 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