Captain Robert Barlow, who died in October 1982, transferred into the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars in March 1948 after a varied military career starting in August 1940, when he was appointed to an Emergency Commission as a Chaplain.
He served in various UK commands until resigning his commission in 1942. In March 1943 he was granted an Emergency Commission in the Royal Armoured Corps. He served in the Middle East with the 145th Regiment RAC from May 1943 until October 1943. He then held various Staff appointments and did a 6-month tour with the Special Boat Service.
In December 1946 he became a Staff Captain at 7 Armoured Brigade before, on 29 March 1948, transferring into the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars, joining them on Leicester East Airfield.
He was a good man and was much liked by his fellow officers and respected by the soldiers.
In December 1949 he left the Regiment on posting to North Midland District as a Staff Captain and in May 1951 moved on to Western Command in a similar appointment.
After leaving the Army in February 1953, he transferred to the Regular Reserve of Officers with whom he remained for 9 years. He also resumed his pastoral duties and was in charge of the Royal Bombay Society for the Mission to Seamen, until ill health caused him to retire in 1963.
