Major-General Dennis Edmund Blaquiere Talbot, CB, CBE, DSO, MC (23 September 1908 – 27 June 1994) was a British Army officer.
[1] The brigade was deployed to France in May and, despite fighting bravely against overwhelming odds at the siege of Calais, was mostly captured by German troops.
Talbot managed to escape, however, crossing the English Channel and landing at Dover.
[2] After briefly serving as brigade major of the 47th (London) Infantry Division's 141st (5th London) Brigade, he then served at Combined Operations Headquarters in from 1941 to 1944, he became Commanding Officer of the 7th Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment, part of the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division, in North West Europe.
[1] After the war, he became commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in 1945 and attended the Royal Naval College, Greenwich the following year.