Colonel Alan George Ferguson-Warren CBE, DSC, Royal Marines

Officer Commanding 42 Commando RM 23/6/47 - 27/1/48. Photo courtesy of Jerry Jasper, President of the The Ferguson Warren Society.

Alan George Warren (he changed his surname by deed poll to Ferguson-Warren on 11/11/49) was commissioned into the Royal Marines on the 1st January 1919. After a distinguished Military Career he retired on the 21st January 1953 having attained the rank of Colonel. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for " Distinguished services in organising the withdrawal of Officers and men in the face of a very heavy enemy attack after the fall of Singapore in March 1942." He was taken prisoner of war during this action. At the end of the war he was released and returned to his role as a RM Officer. More can be read about his career by following this link:

http://skidmoresisland.blogspot.co.uk/2008_12_28_archive.html

Appointed CBE on the 1 January 1952.

Post war Col. Warren was head of the Flint Hill English Department, Flint Hill School in Oakton, Virginia, USA, from 1957 to 1974, and his students erected a memorial to him at the school after his death on the 25th December 1975.

[Posted by Pete R.]