Dennis Talbot

Major-General Dennis Edmund Blaquiere Talbot, (23 September 1908 – 27 June 1994) was a British Army officer.

Military career Educated at Tonbridge School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Talbot was commissioned into the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in 1928. The first few years of his military career were spent with his regiment in India before returning to the United Kingdom where he commanded the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regimental Depot. After briefly serving as brigade major of the 47th (London) Infantry Division's 141st (5th London) Brigade, he then served at Combined Operations Headquarters in from 1941 to 1944, he became Commanding Officer of the 7th Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment, part of the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division, in North West Europe.

Family In 1939, he married Barbara Pyper; they had three sons and two daughters.