Nigel Poett, KCB, DSO 1965–68: Abdy Ricketts CB DSO 1968: Regiment amalgamated with The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and The King's Shropshire Light Infantry to form The Light Infantry Notable members (John) William Ainsley (30 June 1898 – 23 June 1976) was a British coal miner and politician. General Sir Peter de la Billière KCB, KBE, DSO, MC & bar – Director Special Air Service during the Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War. George Butterworth, MC (12 July 1885 – 5 August 1916) was an English composer best known for his settings of A. E. Housman's poems. Sir John Frederick Ferguson CBE CStJ DL (c.1891––27 May 1975), Chief Constable, Metropolitan Police. Lieutenant Colonel William Morgan Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood (12 April 1909 – 22 June 1989), was a British Conservative Party politician. Claud Lovat Fraser (15 May 1890 London) – Artist, designer and author. Commissioned to the 14th battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. He went on to produce sketches as a record of the trenches and battlefields of Flanders. Peter Lewis MC, later a journalist and editor. Lieutenant William Kennett Loftus, father of the English archaeologist and traveller William Loftus. Sir Richard George May (12 November 1938 – 1 July 2004) – was a British judge. National service with the Durham Light Infantry. General Sir Herbert John Mogg, GCB, CBE, DSO & bar (17 February 1913 – 28 October 2001) - Commanding Officer 9th Battalion, 14 June 1944-July 1945 Sergeant Major Bill Nicholson OBE (26 January 1919 – 23 October 2004) was an English football player, coach, manager and scout who devoted his life to Tottenham Hotspur. Gilbert Maurice Norman – received a commission in the Durham Light Infantry in 1940. Joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Arrested in 1943 in France by the Gestapo, he was tortured before transferred to Mauthausen concentration camp where he was executed on 6 September 1944. Lieutenant Harold Orton (23 October 1898 – 7 March 1975) was an English university lecturer and dialectologist, best remembered as co-founder of the Survey of English Dialects. Lieutenant Leslie Phillips, CBE, Actor General Sir Nigel Poett KCB, DSO (J.H.N. Poett) was a British Army officer best known for commanding the 5th Parachute Brigade, British 6th Airborne Division during the Battle of Normandy. Air Vice-Marshal Adam Henry Robson CB, OBE, MC &