General Sir Mervyn Andrew Haldane Butler, KCB CBE DSO MC
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July 1st 1913 – January 3rd 1976
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On the 4th of November 1956 I was with 16th Independent Para Brigade HQ assembled in Cyprus 1956 and billeted just outside Nicosia on the Kyrenia road. I was aged 27 and had been in the Parachute Regiment already some 7 years...
about Operation Musketeer: Corporal Tony Lowe’s Story
Written by Joe Lowe from Corporal Tony Lowe's verbal accounts
| 05/11/1956 – 11/11/1956 | Suez (Operation Musketeer) |
| 01/09/1945 – 30/06/1948 | Palestine |
| 1944-1946 | Commanding Officer (CO), 9th (Essex) Parachute Battalion |
| 1956-1957 | Commanding Officer (CO), 16th Parachute Brigade, (Brigadier) |
