Former Chief Signal Officer, B.A.O.R. dies at 92....
Michael Rhodes
28th Regiment, died 4 January, 2002, aged 91, after a long illness.
He was born 9 June, 1910, one of the three sons of Sir Charlton S.C.
Harrison, CIE, (1881-1951)of Prospect, Jamaica, and the former Violet
Muriel Monamy Buckell.
Educated at Cheltenham, and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, he
was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Signals in 1930, and
served in the 1939-45 War in the Western Desert, Iraq and Burma.
Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1942, then Brigadier, 1961, he was
chief Signal Officer, B.A.O.R., 1960, and retired, 1963.
He was a recipient of the OBE.
Harrison, formerly of Shinfield, Berkshire, married 19 October, 1946,
Sheila Mary Stonor, (deceased), a descendant of the Barons Camoys, by
whom he had three children, Hugh, Robert and Sally-Ann.
He was predeceased by his second son, Rob.
The funeral service takes place on 17 January, 2002 at 12 noon, at
Basingstoke Crematorium.
...Michael Rhodes.