Robert Walker-Brown
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Walker-Brown, MBE, DSO (b. 9 April 1919, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire; d. 16 August 2009) was a British Army officer who served in the Special Air Service during World War II and afterwards. He escaped from an Italian prisoner of war camp in October 1943 and returned to the United Kingdom. Walker-Brown served in the Army until 1963 and had a short period in the Ministry of Defence.
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- 1919 births
- 2009 deaths
- People from Sutton Coldfield
- People educated at Dulwich College
- Special Air Service officers
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
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- British World War II prisoners of war
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Military personnel from the West Midlands (county)