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- Major-General Corran William Brooke Purdon CBE MC CPM (4 May – 27 June ) was an Irish-born career soldier in the British Army, who took part in the raid on St Nazaire as a commando for which he was awarded the Military Cross.
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- Major-General Corran William Brooke Purdon CBE MC CPM (4 May 1921 – 27 June 2018) was an Irish-born career soldier in the British Army, who took part in the raid on St Nazaire as a commando for which he was awarded the Military Cross.
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- Major General Corran Purdon seldom spoke about the two events that came to define his military career: the audacious commando raid on the Nazi-held French port of St Nazaire in and his subsequent year-long imprisonment at the infamous Colditz castle.
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| operation chariot film | Major-General Corran William Brooke Purdon was an Irish-born career soldier in the British Army.1 He was commissioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles in |
| st nazaire raid map | Major-General C W B Purdon, CBE, MC, CPM. 4th May 1921 – 27th June 2018. |
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- Corran Purdon was born in Queenstown, County Cork but would spend part of his early childhood in India where his father, Major General W Brook Purdon DSO MBE MC, was serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Corran Purdon
Irish army officer (1921–2018)
Major-GeneralCorran William Brooke PurdonCBE MC CPM (4 May 1921 – 27 June 2018) was an Irish-born career soldier in the British Army, who took part in the raid on St Nazaire as a commando for which he was awarded the Military Cross. He was subsequently a prisoner in Colditz Castle.[1][2][3][4]
Early life
Purdon was born on 4 May 1921 in Rushbrooke, Queenstown (now called Cobh), near Cork, Ireland, during the Irish War of Independence. His father Major General William Purdon worked for the army as a medical officer and his mother Myrtle, from Belfast, was a homemaker.[5] In his autobiography he referred to the family legend that they had their own Banshee which was rumoured to shriek whenever a family member was going to die. This, apparently, led to telegrams being dispatched to family members when the Banshee was heard to find out if everyone was alright.[1]
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