Major-General Alwyne Michael Webster Whistler, CB, CBE (30 December 1909 – 30 September 1993) was a British Army officer who served chiefly with the Royal Corps of Signals (abbreviated R Signals), spending many years in India and Germany.
Richard Corker Meade, vicar of St Neots, Huntingdonshire, of a cadet branch of the family of the Earls of Clanwilliam.
[2][3] The Whistler family had a clerical tradition; Webster Whistler's father, Rose Fuller Whistler (1825–1894), was rector of Elton, Huntingdonshire, formerly vicar of Ashburnham, near Battle, Sussex, his elder brother Charles was a clergyman as well as a writer of historical fiction, and his elder son, Alwyne's brother, Humphrey — also a dedicated amateur entomologist — took holy orders.
[5][6] Whistler was educated at Gresham's School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, after which he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the R Sigs in 1929.
In 1944 he passed the Staff College, then fought in the Burma campaign with the 19th and 25th Indian Divisions and the Twelfth Army, being twice mentioned in despatches.