Francis Rome

Major-General Francis David Rome CB CMG CBE DSO (1905–1985) was Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.

Military career

Rome was commissioned into the British Army in 1925. He transferred to the Royal Fusiliers in 1927. He served in World War II latterly as Commander of 111th Indian Infantry Brigade. After the War he became Commander of 3rd Parachute Brigade in Palestine from 1946 and then Commander of 1st Parachute Brigade in Palestine from 1947. He was appointed Assistant Commandant at the School of Land/Air Warfare in 1948 and Deputy Adjutant General at Far East Land Forces in 1950. He was then made General Officer Commanding 16th Airborne Division in 1953 and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1956; he retired in 1959. He also served as colonel of the Royal Fusiliers.

Family

In 1936 he married Sybil Parry Carden.