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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox military person Major General Francis David Rome, Шаблон:Postnominals (11 September 1905 – 7 February 1985) was a senior officer in the British Army who served as Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin from 1956 to 1959.

Military career

Rome was commissioned into the British Army in 1925.[1] He transferred to the Royal Fusiliers in 1927.[1] He served in the Second World War, latterly as commander of 111th Indian Infantry Brigade.[1] After the war he became commander of 3rd Parachute Brigade in Palestine from 1946 and then commander of 1st Parachute Brigade in Palestine from 1947.[1] He was appointed Assistant Commandant at the School of Land/Air Warfare in 1948 and Deputy Adjutant General at Far East Land Forces in 1950.[1] He was then made General Officer Commanding 16th Airborne Division in 1953 and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1956; he retired in 1959.[1] He also served as colonel of the Royal Fusiliers.[2]

Family

In 1936 Rome married Sybil Parry Carden.[3]

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