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The Commanding Officers
The Commanding Officer (C.O.) is the top soldier of any Infantry Battalion, normally someone who would have soldiered within his Battalion from Subaltern upwards. By the time he reached Lieutenant Colonel the Lance Corporal in his first Platoon could well be a senior Warrant officer or even the Regimental Sgt Major. Such is the way of a British Infantry Battalion. To most Soldiers the C.O. was a distant figure who you didn’t wish to meet on orders ‘The guard room beckons’
Listed below are the Commanding officers of the 1st Battalion Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment from the birth of the Regiment through to the amalgamation with the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1994.
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Lt Col G.F. WOOLNOUGH M.C. 1959-1961
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Lt Col D.E. BALLANTINE O.B.E. M.C. 1961 -1963
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Lt Col F.H.B. BOSHELL D.S.O.1963-1965
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Lt Col J. R. RODEN M.B.E 1965-1967
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Lt Col T. A. GIBSON M.B.E 1967-1969
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Lt Col D. T. CRABTREE 1969-1972
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Lt Col W.G.R. TURNER M.B.E. 1972-1975
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Lt Col C. B. LEA COX 1975-1977
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Lt Col D. A. JONES 1977-1980
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Lt Col G. COXON M.B.E. 1980-1982
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Lt Col W. A. MACKERETH 1982-1984
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Lt Col A. C. KENWAY 1984-1987
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LT Col S.W.J. SAUNDERS 1987-1989
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Lt Col D. J. A. STONE 1989-1992
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Lt Col H. M. PURCELL 1992-1994