The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Brigadier Edward Francis Egerton Armstrong

Armstrong, Edward Francis Egerton

Brigadier

* 27th of December 1890

† 3rd of February 1995

(Royal Engineers)

Promotions

1940-06-26 Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
1940-09-26 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1941-05-10 Acting Colonel
1941-11-10 War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel
1941-11-10 Temporary Colonel
1943-03-20 Acting Brigadier
1944-01-20 Temporary Brigadier
1944-07-10 Lieutenant-Colonel
1944-12-02 Colonel (Dated back to 1944-11-10)
1945-05-15 Temporary Brigadier
1949-02-09 Brigadier

Service

1940-06-26 1941-05-09 General Staff Officer 1, 7th Indian Infantry Division
Assistant Commandant of Staff College Quetta [India]
1943-06-20 1945-03-07 Brigadier Engineering Staff, Army Headquarters India
Second-in-Command 89th Infantry Brigade [Burma]
1945-XX-XX Brigadier General Staff, 12th Army [Burma]
1946-10-01 1949-09-XX Deputy Military Secretary (B), War Office
1949-XX-XX 1952-XX-XX Commanding Officer British Gurkhas in India
1952-XX-XX President of the Selection Board, War Office
1953-08-18 1954-10-31 Aide de Camp to the Queen
1954-10-31 Retired