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Ronald Urquhart
Major General Ronald Walton Urquhart CB DSO (26 March 1906 – 19 April 1968) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Military career.
Born on 26 March 1906, Ronald Urquhart was educated at Bedford School, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1925. In the Second World War he served in Norway and North West Europe, being awarded the DSO for his services in
Stanislaus, 2nd class with star, in 1916.
Family.
Urquhart married American-born Beryl da Silva-Bald in 1909; her father was English, her mother from Illinois. The wedding was in London, but the couple went then to Kyshtym, where their first son Kenneth was born the following year. At the end of 1911 Urquhart bought Brasted Place, in Brasted, Kent, England, as a family home, from Henry Avray Tipping. The other children of the marriage were:
- Ronald