Brigadier David Block CBE, DSO, MC, (13 June 1908 – 2001) was a British army officer who won a Military Cross when commanding "C" Battery of the Ayrshire Yeomanry in North Africa and the DSO in Italy the following year. He was later was appointed ADC to the Queen.
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