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Brigadier A S Pearson CB, FSO, OBE, MC, TD
photograph of oil painting, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.1982-04-693-1

Description

Brigadier A S Pearson CB, FSO, OBE, MC, TD, 1980 (c). Coloured photograph of an oil painting by Sandy Goudie, 1980 (c). Shows subject seated in No 1 dress, Parachute Regiment. Pearson served in France in 1940 and was dropped into Tunisia in 1941 as second in command of 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment, taking over when its commanding officer was killed. In the 18 months that followed he gained the Distinguished Service Order with three bars as well as the Military Cross. He was also landed in Sicily and then commanded 8th Battalion in Normandy on 6 June 1944. After the war he raised a Scottish Territorial Army parachute battalion.

Campaigns

World War Two, North Africa (1940-1945), World War Two, Sicily (1943-1945), World War Two, North West Europe (1939-1940)

Events

D-Day, 1944 (World War Two, North West Europe 1944-1945), TORCH, Operation, 1942 (World War Two, North Africa 1940-1945)