The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of General Robert Napier Hubert Campbell Bray

Bray, Robert Napier Hubert Campbell

General

* 14th of June 1908

† 14th of August 1983

(Duke of Wellington's Regiment)

Promotions

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

Service

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
Picture source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/General_RNHC_Bray_GBE_KCB_DSO.jpg