The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Roderic Duncan Cameron

Cameron, Roderic Duncan

Major-General

* 16th of February 1893

† 23rd of April 1975

(Royal Army Medical Corps)

Promotions

1939-09-01 Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
1939-12-01 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1941-07-28 Acting Colonel
1942-01-28 War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-01-28 Temporary Colonel
1943-02-07 Lieutenant-Colonel
1944-12-04 Acting Brigadier
1945-06-04 Temporary Brigadier
1947-04-16 Colonel (Dated back to 1946-02-07)
1949-05-12 Brigadier
1950-04-03 Temporary Major-General
1951-01-28 Major-General

Service

1939-09-01 1941-07-27 Assistant Director-General of Army Medical Services, War Office
1941-07-28 1942-02-11 Seconded to Ministry of Supply
1942-02-12 1942-08-05 Assistant Director of Medical Services, 43rd Infantry Division
1942-12-15 1943-XX-XX Assistant Director of Medical Services, 42nd Armoured Division
1943-XX-XX 1944-10-31 Assistant Director of Medical Services, 3rd Infantry Division
1944-11-01 1944-12-03 Deputy Director of Medical Services, 21st Army Group
1944-XX-XX 1945-XX-XX Deputy Director of Medical Services, XXX Corps
1945-10-16 1947-XX-XX Deputy Director of Medical Services, Army Headquarters India
1948-XX-XX 1949-XX-XX Deputy Director of Medical Services, London District
1949-XX-XX 1950-XX-XX Inspector of Medical Services, War Office
1950-04-03 1953-XX-XX Director of Medical Services, British Army of the Rhine [Germany]
1951-01-26 1952-02-06 Honorary Physician to the King
1952-02-06 1953-02-16 Honorary Physician to the Queen
1953-02-16 Retired
1953-08-09 1958-02-16 Colonel-Commandant, Royal Army Medical Corps
Picture source: Courtesy of Paul Godley