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Sir Horace Rollo Squarey Pain, (11 May 1921 – 14 April 2005) was a

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officer who commanded the 2nd Division from 1970 to 1972.

Military career

Educated at

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, Pain was commissioned into the

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in 1943 during the

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and served in North West Europe.Lieutenant-General Sir Rollo Pain
The Times, 27 April 2005 He was awarded the

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for his leadership during fighting for control of the village of Stemmen in Germany. After the war Pain saw active service in

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during the Palestine Emergency, for which he was

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. In 1962 he became

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of the

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. He was appointed commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade in North

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in 1965, Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations at the

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in 1969 and

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(GOC) of the 2nd Division in 1970. He went on to be Director of Military Training in 1972 and Head of the British Defence Staff in

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in 1975 before retiring in 1978. Pain was given the colonelcy of the

from 1979 to 1983.

Family

In 1950 Pain married Denys Chaine-Nickson; they had a son and two daughters.

References

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