The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Edrick Montague Bastyan

Bastyan, Edrick Montague

Lieutenant-General

* 5th of April 1903

† 6th of October 1980

(Sherwood Foresters)

Nickname: Dricky

Promotions

1941-07-09 Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
1941-10-09 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-05-13 Acting Colonel
1942-05-13 Acting Brigadier
1942-11-13 War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-11-13 Temporary Colonel
1944-12-03 Acting Major-General
1945-07-19 Colonel
1945-12-03 Temporary Major-General
1946-04-01 Relinquish the Temporary rank of Major-General
1946-10-15 Temporary Major-General
1948-01-26 Major-General (Dated back to 1946-04-13)
1957-06-01 Temporary Lieutenant-General
1957-06-05 Lieutenant-General

Service

1941-07-09 –1942-05-12 Assistant Quartermaster-General ? [Middle East]
1942-05-13 –1942-10-05 Deputy Director of Higher Commanders' Course
1942-10-05 –1944-01-08 Brigadier (Q), Middle East Command
1944-01-09 –1944-12-02 Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General, 8th Army [Italy]
1944-12-19 –1946-03-01 Chief Administration Officer, Allied Land Forces South-East Asia
1946-10-15 –1948-12-16 Chief Administration Officer, British Army of the Rhine [Germany]
1949-01-03 –1949-06-08 Member of Committee on the Organisation of the Administrative Services of the Army
1949-07-09 –1950-11-23 Chief of Staff, Eastern Command
1950-11-24 –1952-09-12 Director of Staff Duties, War Office
1952-10-23 –1955-03-25 General Officer Commanding 53rd Infantry Division
1952-10-23 –1955-03-25 District Officer Commanding Mid-West District
1955-03-30 –1957-03-01 Vice Adjutant-General, War Office
1957-06-01 –1960-06-03 General Officer Commanding British Forces in Hong Kong
1960-08-30 Retired
1961-02-20 –1968-XX-XX Governor of South Australia
1968-10-29 –1974-XX-XX Governor of Tasmania
Picture source: Courtesy of John Redmond