| Citation: North West Europe. Citation for MBE: This officer has had a very difficult task in the last six months in Brussels and he has carried out his exceptionally heavy duties admirably. The co-ordination of the duties of British Military and Royal Air Force Pro and American and Canandian Pro and their cooperation has been part of his extra responsibility whilst the innumerable raids on Cafes to ensure their closure at the correct hours, the enforcement of curfew regulations in a Capital City and the maintenance of discipline in a city full of resident troops and swoollen by and intake of 30,000 additional troops a week on leave, have been part of his extra responsibilities. He has been indefatigable in his efforts to check the incidence of VD by hunting down sources of contaminations and the cooperation he has secured from the Civil Police in this respect has been most marked. Another item of this officer's extra burden has been the heavy extra work in the control of vehs and traffic in Brussels, both military and civilian and the organisation and control of the Official Car Parks where some 30,000 vehs are parked each month and out of which but 5 vehs have been stolen.
Brigadier Comd Brussels Garrison. Brigadier R H R Parminter Comd 11 L of C Area. Maj-Gen G Surtees Comd HQ L of C. National Archive WO 373/85
9/45 Major D Clitherow-Smith APM brussels Garrison awarded MBE. Unit War Diary Pro Branch Brussels Garrison WO171/4601. Brussels Garrison, 11 L of C Area. |
