Cosmo Haskard

[4] Born in Dublin, he was the son of Brigadier-General John McDougal and Alicia "Lily" Haskard.At Cambridge, he served in the university's Officer Training Corps, attaining the rank of cadet company sergeant major; he was commissioned a second lieutenant for service with the infantry unit of the Cambridge OTC contingent on 1 October 1938.[6] Haskard was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Irish Fusiliers on 1 November 1939,[7] attaining the rank of captain (war-substantive) by the end of the Second World War.He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, Military Division (MBE) in September 1945.[11] As governor, he was instrumental in defeating a move by Harold Wilson's government to cede sovereignty of the islands to Argentina.
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