General
* 14th of June 1908
† 14th of August 1983
(Duke of Wellington's Regiment)
1941-05-26 | Local Lieutenant-Colonel |
1942-07-19 | Acting Lieutenant-Colonel |
1942-10-19 | War Substantive Major |
1942-10-19 | Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel |
1945-02-02 | Major |
1945-06-07 | Acting Colonel |
1945-06-07 | Acting Brigadier |
1945-12-07 | War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel |
1945-12-07 | Temporary Colonel |
1945-12-07 | Temporary Brigadier |
1950-12-31 | Colonel |
1954-12-16 | Temporary Major-General |
1955-06-16 | Brigadier |
1955-10-29 | Major-General |
1961-08-01 | Lieutenant-General (Dated back to 1961-02-27) |
1965-02-25 | General |
1940-04-22 | – | 1942-07-18 | General Staff Officer 2, ? |
1942-07-19 | – | 1944-10-21 | General Staff Officer 1, 6th Airborne Division |
1944-10-22 | – | 1945-06-07 | Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment |
1945-01-20 | – | 1945-01-23 | Acting Commanding Officer 56th Infantry Brigade [Northwestern Europe] |
1945-01-27 | – | 1945-02-06 | Acting Commanding Officer 56th Infantry Brigade [Northwestern Europe] |
1945-02-07 | – | 1945-04-20 | Commanding Officer 185th Infantry Brigade [Northwestern Europe] |
1946-11-11 | – | 1946-12-05 | Acting General Officer Commanding ? Division |
1946-12-06 | – | 1947-06-30 | Commanding Officer ? Brigade |
1947-07-01 | – | 1948-11-26 | Deputy Adjutant-General, Middle East Land Forces |
1950-01-07 | – | 1952-06-08 | Brigadier General Staff (Operations), British Army of the Rhine [Germany] |
1952-07-15 | – | 1953-10-12 | Commanding Officer 50th Independent Infantry Brigade |
1953-11-14 | – | 1954-10-16 | Commanding Officer 29th Infantry Brigade Group [Korea] |
1954-12-16 | – | 1957-03-01 | Director of Land/Air Warfare, War Office |
1954-12-16 | – | 1957-03-01 | Director of NATO Standardisation, War Office |
1957-04-30 | – | 1959-03-31 | General Officer Commanding 56th Infantry Division |
1959-05-01 | – | 1961-05-08 | General Officer Commanding Land Forces, Arabian Peninsula |
1961-08-01 | – | 1963-11-01 | General Officer Commanding in Chief Southern Command |
1963-11-18 | – | 1967-02-09 | Commander in Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe |
1965-09-21 | – | 1968-09-21 | Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen |
1965-10-01 | – | 1975-07-07 | Colonel, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) |
1967-03-01 | – | 1970-12-01 | Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe |
1971-03-09 | Retired |