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Chandos Blair
Lieutenant General Sir Chandos Blair KCVO OBE MC & Bar (25 February 1919 – 22 January 2011) was General Officer Commanding Scotland.
==Military career==
Born the son of Arthur Blair and educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Blair was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders in 1939.〔''Debrett's People of Today'' (1994)〕 He served in World War II with the 2nd and 7th Battalions of his regiment.〔 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.〔("Dunkirk POW" ), ''Glasgow Herald'', 16 May 2010.〕 He escaped to Switzerland and from there to Spain and to Gibraltar. As such he was the first officer to return home after escaping from a prisoner of war camp.〔(Obituary: Lieutenant-General Sir Chandos Blair KCVO OBE MC & Bar, soldier and GOC Scotland 1972-1976 ) The Scotsman, 26 January 2011〕 Blair was awarded the Military Cross for his exploits.〔
In 1959, he was appointed Commanding Officer of the 4th Bn the King's African Rifles.〔 He was made General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in British Army of the Rhine in 1968 and then became Defence Services Secretary in 1970.〔 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.〔("Uganda: The British Must Kneel at My Feet!" ), ''Time Magazine'', 7 July 1975〕 Blair retired in 1976.〔
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