The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Brigadier Colin Edward Arrott Browning

Browning, Colin Edward Arrott

Brigadier

* 2nd of September 1899

† 30th of May 1967

(Royal Engineers)

Promotions

1941-04-16 Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
1941-07-16 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1943-07-08 Local Colonel
1944-02-01 Acting Colonel
1944-08-01 War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel
1944-08-01 Temporary Colonel
1944-12-31 Lieutenant-Colonel
1945-01-15 Local Brigadier
1947-09-09 Colonel (Dated back to 1947-08-01)
Temporary Brigadier
1952-07-01 Brigadier

Service

1941-XX-XX 1942-XX-XX Commander Royal Engineers, 8th Armoured Division [North Africa]
1942-XX-XX 1943-XX-XX Commander Royal Engineers, 50th Infantry Division [North Africa]
1943-XX-XX Commander Royal Engineers, 6th Armoured Division [North Africa]
1943-XX-XX Commander Royal Engineers, 50th Infantry Division [Sicily]
Colonel Royal Engineers at US Army Engineer School Fort Belvoir
Colonel Royal Engineers, British Army Staff Washington
1945-03-08 1946-XX-XX Brigadier Engineering Staff, Army Headquarters India
1947-11-XX Brigadier Royal Engineers ? [India]
Assistant Commandant of the School of Military Engineering
1950-05-XX 1951-08-XX Deputy Engineer-in-Chief, War Office
1951-10-XX 1954-08-XX Commandant of the School of Military Engineering
1951-11-XX 1954-09-XX Commandant of Chatham
1954-09-23 Retired