Karl Vere Barker-Benfield

Attaché militaire en Hongrie, Autriche et Suisse de 1935 à 1938, Karl Vere Barker-Benfield est General Staff Officer au War Office de 1938 à 1939.

Il commande l'Artillerie royale de 1941 à 1942.

Il est inspecteur de la formation du renseignement (War Office) en 1943, puis Brigadier chargé du Service de renseignements de 1944 à 1945.

Il est commandant des forces lors de la Bataille de Crète.

• Peter Murtagh, The Rape of Greece: The King, the Colonels and the Resistance, 1994
• The V. C. and D. S. O.: a complete record of all those officers, non-commissioned officers and men of His Majesty's naval, military and air forces who have been awarded these decorations from the time of their institution, with descriptions of the deeds and services which won the distinctions and with many biographical and other details, compiled from official publications and despatches, letters from commanding officers and other contemporary accounts, and from information from private sources, Volume 3, 1924
• Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died, Volume 9, 2002