Colonel
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In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of ...
Sir Robert Andrew St George Martin (23 April 1914 – 13 December 1993) was a
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...
officer who was
Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire. Since 1703, all Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Leicestershire.
Lord Lieutenants
* Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset 1549–1551
*Francis Hasting ...
from 1965 to 1989.http://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/ObitMartinvolumeLXVIII-8sm.pdf
Robert Andrew St George Martin was educated at
Eton Eton most commonly refers to Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England.
Eton may also refer to:
Places
*Eton, Berkshire, a town in Berkshire, England
* Eton, Georgia, a town in the United States
* Éton, a commune in the Meuse dep ...
and at the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
The Royal Military College (RMC), founded in 1801 and established in 1802 at Great Marlow and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, but moved in October 1812 to Sandhurst, Berkshire, was a British Army military academy for training infantry a ...
. He was commissioned into the
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was a light infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until 1958, serving in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II.
The regiment was formed as a consequence of th ...
Governor General of South Africa
The governor-general of the Union of South Africa ( af, Goewerneur-generaal van Unie van Suid-Afrika, nl, Goeverneur-generaal van de Unie van Zuid-Afrika) was the highest state official in the Union of South Africa between 31 May 1910 and 31 ...
from 1938 to 1940.
Martin served in the
Second World War
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with the 4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry from 1940 to 1942 and the
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
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from 1942 to 1944. He served in North-Western Europe with the 5th Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry during 1944 and 1945 and was
mentioned in despatches
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. Following staff posts he served with the 1st
Somerset Light Infantry
The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army, which served under various titles from 1685 to 1959. In 1959, the regiment was amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the Some ...
from 1950 to 1952 and was Assistant Military Secretary at HQ, BAOR from 1952 to 1954. He served with the 1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 43rd and 52nd during 1954 and 1955. He was Military Secretary to the
Governor General of Australia
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Cyprus
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from 1957 to 1959. He was Brigade Colonel of the
Green Jackets Brigade
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History
After the Second World War the British Army had fourteen infantry ...
at
Winchester
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,
Hampshire
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from 1959 to 1962. He commanded Recruiting and Liaison Staff, HQ Western Command from 1962 to 1965. He retired from the Army in 1965.
Martin was Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire from 1965 to 1989. He lived in
Woodhouse Eaves
Woodhouse Eaves is a village in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, England.
Nearby are the villages of Quorn, Swithland, and Newtown Linford. Breakback Road leads from the village to Nanpantan and Loughborough.
The church of St Paul is a ...
, near
Loughborough
Loughborough ( ) is a market town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and Loughborough University. At the 2011 census the town's built-up area had a population of 59,932 , the second larg ...
,
Leicestershire
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. He married Margaret Grace in 1950 with whom he had one son.
He was appointed KCVO in 1988, OBE in 1959 and
MBE Mbe may refer to:
* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
* ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language
Molal ...