# Gyles Longley

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**Oliver Gyles Longley** [CBE](/source/CBE) [MC](/source/Military_Cross) (30 September 1918 - 28 May 2015) was a [British Army](/source/British_Army) officer of the Second World War who won the [Military Cross](/source/Military_Cross) in 1943 for his actions in Italy while commanding a squadron of 44th Reconnaissance Regiment near [Battipaglia](/source/Battipaglia). Longley had a number of narrow escapes during his military service, including stepping on a mine that failed to explode.[1]

Longley was born in the London district of Streatham, the son of an officer in the [Honourable Artillery Company](/source/Honourable_Artillery_Company) who in the First World War was also awarded the Military Cross.[1] He was educated at [Tonbridge School](/source/Tonbridge_School) in Kent.

After [demobilisation](/source/Demobilisation) in 1946, Longley returned to his pre-war employers [Gestetner](/source/Gestetner). In 1965, he became managing director of Gestetner France, and in 1976 he was made a director of Gestetner Holdings Ltd with responsibility for Continental Europe, Africa, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.[1]

## Memoirs

- *To Hell with That! or the Life of Oliver Gyles Longley, C.B.E., M.C.* Grimsay Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1845301279

## References

1. [Gyles Longley, Reconnaissance officer - obituary.](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11675477/Gyles-Longley-Reconnaissance-officer-obituary.html) *[The Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)*, 15 June 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015.

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