The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Desmond Spencer Gordon

Gordon, Desmond Spencer

Major-General

* 25th of December 1911

† 4th of November 1997

(Green Howards)

Promotions

1943-03-25 Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
1943-06-25 War Substantive Major
1943-06-25 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1944-06-17 Acting Colonel
1944-06-17 Acting Brigadier
1944-12-17 War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel
1944-12-17 Temporary Colonel
1944-12-17 Temporary Brigadier
1946-07-01 Major
1946-10-19 Relinquish the Temporary rank of Brigadier
1949-12-21 Relinquish the Temporary rank of Colonel
1950-04-01 Temporary Colonel
1951-01-19 Lieutenant-Colonel
1951-03-20 Temporary Brigadier
1952-12-25 Colonel
1959-01-01 Brigadier
1959-10-12 Major-General

Service

1943-03-25 1944-04-16 Commanding Officer 1st/7th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment
1944-04-17 1944-12-07 Commanding Officer 151st Infantry Brigade [Northwestern Europe]
1944-12-06 1945-07-25 Commanding Officer 146th Infantry Brigade [Northwestern Europe]
1945-08-03 1945-XX-XX Commanding Officer 146th Infantry Brigade [Northwestern Europe]
1946-08-31 Commanding Officer 131st Lorried Brigade
1946-10-20 1949-04-11 Colonel General Staff, British Army of the Rhine
1949-12-22 1950-03-31 General Staff Officer 1, War Office
1950-04-01 1951-03-20 Colonel General Staff, War Office
1951-03-21 1952-10-31 Deputy Director of Infantry, War Office
1952-12-30 1955-12-31 Commanding Officer 16th Independent Parachute Brigade Group
1956-01-25 1957-11-17 Assistant Commandant of Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
1959-01-24 1959-10-07 Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General, I Corps [Germany]
1959-10-12 1961-11-09 General Officer Commanding 4th Infantry Division
1962-03-05 1964-04-03 Chief Army Instructor at Imperial Defence College
1964-08-19 1966-XX-XX Assistant Chief of Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence
1965-11-01 1975-01-01 Colonel, Green Howards
1966-04-30 Retired
Picture source: https://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels_and_co/commanding_officers/queens_west_surrey/major-general-ds-gordon.shtml