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 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.

Military career

Educated at

Wellington College, Berkshire Wellington College is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) in the village of Crowthorne, Berkshire, England. Wellington is a registered charity and currently educates roughly 1,200 pupils, between the ages of 13 and ...

and 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 ...

, 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 an ...

on 27 August 1931. He served in the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

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 Armou ...

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