Sir Chandos Blair, British army general died he was , 91.

Lieutenant General Sir Chandos Blair KCVO OBE MC & Bar was General Officer Commanding Scotland.

(25 February 1919 – 22 January 2011) 

Military career

Educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Blair was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders in 1939.^[1] He served in World War II with the 2nd and 7th Battalions of his regiment.^[1] His regiment was forced to surrender at Dunkirk, and he became a prisoner of war at the Oflag V-B camp at Biberach in Baden-Württemberg.^[2] He escaped to Switzerland and from there to Spain and to Gibraltar. Blair was awarded the Military Cross for his exploits.^[2]
In 1959, he was appointed Commanding Officer of the 4th Bn the King's African Rifles.^[1] He was made General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in British Army of the Rhine in 1968 and then became Defence Services Secretary in 1970.^[1] His last appointment was as General Officer Commanding Scotland and Governor of Edinburgh Castle in 1972; in that capacity, Prime Minister Harold Wilson dispatched him as a Special Envoy to secure the release of Denis Hills, a British subject held on spying charges by President Idi Amin of Uganda.^[3] Blair retired in 1976.^[1]

Family

In 1947 he married Audrey Mary Travers; they went on to have one son and one daughter.
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