Charles Henry Pepys Harington
General Sir Charles Henry Pepys Harington, GCB, CBE, DSO, MC (1910 – 13 February 2007) was an officer in the British Army. He served in the British Expeditionary Force and in Normandy in the Second World War. He was later Commander-in-Chief of the three-service Middle East Command from 1963 to 1965, based at Aden. He ended his Army career as Chief of Personnel and Logistics at the UK Ministry of Defence from 1968 to 1971.
Read more about Charles Henry Pepys Harington: Early Life and Career, Second World War, Post-war Service, Aden, Late Career
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