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Portrait of General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar

Crerar, Henry Duncan Graham

General

* 28th of April 1888

† 1st of April 1965

Promotions

1918-11-10 Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
1920-04-01 Major
1934-04-19 Lieutenant-Colonel
1938-08-15 Colonel
1938-08-15 Temporary Brigadier
1940-01-25 Acting Major-General
1941-11-19 Acting Lieutenant-General
1941-12-23 Relinquishes the Acting rank of Lieutenant-General
1942-04-06 Lieutenant-General
1944-03-20 General
1944-11-16 Temporary General

Service

1918-11-10 –1919-02-13 Counter Battery Staff Officer, Canadian Corps [France]
1920-08-18 –1922-12-21 Staff Officer Artillery
1925-04-01 –1927-03-31 General Staff Officer 2, War Office
1928-01-01 –1929-04-30 Professor of Tactics, Royal Military College
1929-05-01 –1934-12-31 General Staff Officer 1 ?
1935-01-01 –1938-08-14 Director of Military Operations & Intelligence
1938-08-15 –1939-XX-XX Commandant of Royal Military College
1939-10-17 –1940-07-06 Brigadier General Staff, Canadian Military Headquarters [England]
1940-07-06 –1940-07-21 Vice Chief of the General Staff, National Defence Headquarters
1940-07-22 –1941-12-22 Chief of the General Staff, National Defence Headquarters
1941-12-23 –1942-04-06 General Officer Commanding 2nd Canadian Infantry Division [England]
1942-12-23 –1944-03-19 General Officer Commanding I Canadian Corps [England - Italy]
1944-03-20 –1944-09-26 General Officer Commanding 1st Canadian Army [Northwestern Europe]
1944-11-09 –1944-11-16 General Officer Commanding 1st Canadian Army [Northwestern Europe]
1944-11-16 –1945-07-30 General Officer Commanding 1st Canadian Army [Northwestern Europe]
1945-09-10 – Attached to the National Defence Headquarters
1946-07-30 Retired
1948-XX-XX –1951-XX-XX Aide-de-Camp General to the King
1952-06-19 – Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen
Picture source: From: "Review - Royal Military College of Canada", 1965