John Cubbon

Cubbon was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment in 1931.^[1] He served as adjutant of the 7th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment with the British Expeditionary Force in September 1939 at the start of the Second World War.^[1] He then commanded the 2/5th Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment from October 1944 to April 1945 during the Italian campaign.^[1]

After the war, in 1946, he became commanding officer of 6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion and, in 1948, he became commanding officer of 4/6th Parachute Battalion which was re-designated as the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment later that year.^[1] He went on to be commander of 18th Infantry Brigade in Malaya in 1956 during the Malayan Emergency, General Officer Commanding 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division in February 1960^[2] and General Officer Commanding Middle East Land Forces in Aden in May 1963 during the Aden Emergency before retiring in June 1965.^[3]

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1962 Birthday Honours.^[4]