Harry Baxter
Brigadier Henry Joseph Patrick Harry Baxter CBE GM KM was an Irish born fourth generation soldier who overcame the handicap of being blind in one eye to join the army and rose to command one of the largest and most controversial regiments in the British Army.
Harry Baxter was born a child of the regiment to the Royal Irish Fusiliers. Despite being blind in his right eye as the result of a childhood shooting accident in India he was determined to join the army in 1939. The medical officer who tested him was impressed to meet someone who was trying to cheat his way into the army that he passed him fit for the Indian Army. He gave up a scholarship place at Oxford University and was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. to the Punjab Regiment onOctober 1942 with the number 363915. Baxters service in India was mostly wartime and he served in Burma. His Emergency Commission was changed to a Permanent Commission in the British Army onMay 1946 when he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers as a Temporary Major.
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