The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Cyril Frederick Charles Coleman

Coleman, Cyril Frederick Charles

Lieutenant-General

* 16th of April 1903

† 17th of June 1974

(Welch Regiment)

Promotions

1941-09-26 Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
1941-12-26 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1944-06-22 Acting Colonel
1944-06-22 Acting Brigadier
1944-12-22 War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel
1944-12-22 Temporary Colonel
1944-12-22 Temporary Brigadier
1945-07-14 Lieutenant-Colonel
1947-12-31 Colonel (Dated back to 1947-12-22)
1948-12-22 Temporary Major-General
1949-05-09 Major-General
1956-05-15 Temporary Lieutenant-General
1956-08-21 Lieutenant-General

Service

1941-09-26 –1944-06-21 Commanding Officer 4th Battalion, Welch Regiment
1943-11-22 –1944-01-28 Acting Commanding Officer 160th Infantry Brigade
1944-06-22 –1945-05-27 Commanding Officer 160th Infantry Brigade [Northwestern Europe]
1945-05-27 –1945-06-03 Acting General Officer Commanding 53rd Infantry Division [Northwestern Europe]
1945-06-03 –1946-03-31 Commanding Officer 160th Infantry Brigade [Northwestern Europe]
1945-08-26 –1945-XX-XX Acting General Officer Commanding 53rd Infantry Division [Northwestern Europe]
1947-01-01 –1948-12-10 Commanding Officer 160th Infantry Brigade
1948-12-22 –1951-09-13 General Officer Command 43rd Infantry Division
1948-12-22 –1951-09-13 District Officer Commanding South-West District
1951-10-22 –1954-03-13 General Officer Commanding British Troops in Berlin [Germany]
1954-03-27 –1956-05-24 Chief of Staff, Northern Army Group [Germany]
1954-03-27 –1956-05-24 Chief of Staff, British Army of the Rhine [Germany]
1956-05-15 –1959-06-29 General Officer Commanding in Chief Eastern Command
1958-01-08 –1965-11-20 Colonel, Welch Regiment
1959-07-27 Retired
1964-01-16 –1969-XX-XX Lieutenant-Governor & Commander in Chief of Guernsey
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