Services
Major George Arnold Whitaker MC MBE (Rendlesham 1928-1932)
During WW2 served in 4th Baluch Regiment in the Battle of the Cauldron in North Africa and was awarded the Military Cross on 6 June 1942. He was taken a prisoner-of-war, but escaped in September 1943. Once he had recovered, he was posted to India in June 1944 and spent the rest of the war as an instructor in the jungle training division. After WW2 he returned to the tea business in India and was appointed MBE in 1969 “for services to the British community in Calcutta”. He died at the age of 79.
