John Caunter
John Alan Lyde Caunter was a senior British Army officer.Military career
Educated at Uppingham School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Caunter was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1909. He was captured by German forces in October 1914 and spend most of the war in captivity as a prisoner of war before escaping from a camp at Schwarmstedt in summer 1917. He went on to serve with the British Salonika Army in 1918. Caunter became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Royal Tank Corps in Egypt in 1935 and became commander of 4th Armoured Brigade in the Western Desert campaign in January 1940, in which role he saw action at the Battle of Beda Fomm in Libya in February 1941. He became Deputy Director of Staff Duties, Armoured Troops at GHQ India in 1941 before retiring in 1944.Works
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