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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Major General Sir Rohan Delacombe, KCMG, KBE, CB, DSO, KStJ (25 October 1906 ? 10 November 1991) was a British military officer who commanded the British occupation forces in Berlin from 1959 to 1962 at the height of the Cold War. He was also the last British Governor of Victoria in Australia from 1963 to 1974. In 1926, he joined the Royal Scots regiment of the British Army, with whom he saw service in Egypt, North China and Quetta in India (now Pakistan) with the Regiment's 1st Battalion. He then served in Palestine from 1937 until the outbreak of…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Major General Sir Rohan Delacombe, KCMG, KBE, CB, DSO, KStJ (25 October 1906 ? 10 November 1991) was a British military officer who commanded the British occupation forces in Berlin from 1959 to 1962 at the height of the Cold War. He was also the last British Governor of Victoria in Australia from 1963 to 1974. In 1926, he joined the Royal Scots regiment of the British Army, with whom he saw service in Egypt, North China and Quetta in India (now Pakistan) with the Regiment's 1st Battalion. He then served in Palestine from 1937 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Delacombe was posted with the 4th Infantry Brigade as part of the British Expeditionary Force which was sent to the Franco-Belgian border following Germany's invasion of Poland. After working at the British Army Staff College in 1940, Delacombe assisted Lt Gen Adrian Carton de Wiart as a General Staff Officer (Grade 2) during the Namsos Campaign in Norway.