Career
He was commissioned into the Irish Guards as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1931. He went on to become acting commander of the British 5th Guards Armoured Brigade in 1945. He retired from the Army in 1949.
In the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far, based on Operation Market-Garden, Michael Byrne played Giles Vandeleur and Michael Caine played Joe.
Vandeleur died on 9 March 1978.