(1915-07-30)30 July 1915 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Died
24 December 2007(2007-12-24) (aged 92) Birmingham, England
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1939–1945
Rank
Major
Service number
90523[1]
Unit
Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Battles/wars
Second World War
Siege of Malta
Allied invasion of Sicily
Italian campaign
Operation Overlord
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine
Western Allied invasion of Germany
Awards
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Member of the Order of the British Empire
mentioned in despatches (3)
Major Paul Randell Odgers, CB, MBE, TD (30 July 1915 – 24 December 2007), was a British civil servant and a British Army officer who served in the Second World War with the tactical headquarters of the Eighth Army in the Italian campaign and the 21st Army Group in north-west Europe. When he died in 2007, he was the last survivor of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's tactical headquarters who was present at the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath.
Odgers joined the Board of Education in 1937. He was an Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Education from 1948 to 1956, and Deputy Secretary of the Department of Education and Science under Margaret Thatcher from 1971 to 1975.
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Major Paul Randell Odgers, CB, MBE, TD (30 July 1915 – 24 December 2007), was a British civil servant and a British Army officer who served in the Second...
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Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01696-3. OCLC 56592292. Odgers, George (1994). 100 Years of Australians at War. Lansdowne. ISBN 1-86302-669-X...
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Grey 2008, p. 103. Odgers 1994, pp. 93–94. Odgers 1994, p. 95. Coulthard-Clark 1998, p. 126. Coulthard-Clark 1998, pp. 127–128. Odgers 1994, p. 96. Coulthard-Clark...
reported in The Times, although Leno's speech had been attributed to George Odgers, who had in fact been the only person to support Cluserat's proposal. John...
Casualties and Combat Losses. Greenhill. pp. 255, 258, 259. ISBN 1-85367-280-7. Odgers, G. (1957). Air war against Japan. Australian War Memorial. "Survey of Allied...
au. Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 27 February 2023. Odgers, James Rowland (2016). Odgers' Australian Senate practice / As revised by Harry Evans /...
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81 (30 September 1975), High Court. Odgers' Australian Senate Practice, Simultaneous dissolutions of 1975. Odgers' Australian Senate Practice, Simultaneous...
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