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The son of the Review W. W. Whistler of Elsted, Sussex, by his marriage to Lilian Whistler Meade, Whistler was educated at Gresham"s School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, after which he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1929.
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
During the Second World War Whistler saw active service against the Japanese in Burma. He ended his career as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Signals) and was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Corps of Signals. From 1932 to 1944 he served in India, and was Master of Fox Hounds to the Nerbudda Vale Hunt from 1938 to 1940.
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.
In 1946 he was posted to Berlin and was Military Adviser to the Military Governor of Germany, 1946 to 1948. After a year as Assistant Quartermaster-General at the War Office, he went to the Combined Staff College in 1950.
He was commanding officer of the Royal Signals, 3rd Division, 1951–1954, a Colonel at the War Office, 1955–1957, a Colonel of Far East Land Forces, 1957–1958, commanding officer of Corps of Royal Signals, 1 (British) Corps, British Army of the Rhine, 1959–1960, then Signal Officer-in-Chief at the War Office, 1960–1962. His next posting was as Chairman of the British Joint Communications Board at the Ministry of Defence, from 1962 to 1964, before he completed his career as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Signals), 1964–1965.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Birthday, 1960.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Birthday, 1960 Central Bank (military division), 1963 Honorary Colonel, Princess Louise"s Kensington Regiment (41st Signals) Territorial Army, 1963–1966 Colonel Commandant, Royal Corps of Signals, 1964–1968 Honorary Colonel, 32nd (Scottish) Signal Regiment (Volunteers), 1967–1972 Princess Mary Medal, Royal Signals Institution, 1978.
