Gen. Sir Charles Frederic Keightley, GCB GBE DSO DL

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Gen. Sir Charles Frederic Keightley, GCB GBE DSO DL

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Birthplace: Anerley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
Death: June 17, 1974 (72)
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:

Son of The Rev. Charles Albert Keightley and Kathleen Frances Keightley
Husband of Joan Lydia Smyth-Osbourne
Father of Private and Colonel Patrick Thomas Keightley

Managed by: Tommaso Valarani
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About Gen. Sir Charles Frederic Keightley, GCB GBE DSO DL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Keightley

General Sir Charles Frederic Keightley, GCB, GBE, DSO, DL (24 June 1901 – 17 June 1974) was a senior British Army officer who served during and following the Second World War. After serving with distinction during the Second World War – becoming, in 1944, the youngest corps commander in the British Army – he had a distinguished postwar career and was the Governor of Gibraltar from 1958 to 1962.

Since Keightley‘s death, there has been much scrutiny of the methods he employed in 1945 to send thousands of Cossacks and White Russians to their death at the hands of Stalin.

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Gen. Sir Charles Frederic Keightley, GCB GBE DSO DL's Timeline

1901
June 24, 1901
Anerley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
September 9, 1901
Penge, Greater London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
1974
June 17, 1974
Age 72
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
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