The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Edward Stewart Lindsay

Lindsay, Edward Stewart

Major-General

* 11th of July 1905

† 18th of March 1990

(Royal Artillery)

Promotions

1941-05-26 Local Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-02-26 Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-05-26 War Substantive Major
1942-05-26 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-10-02 Relinquish the Temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-12-14 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-12-14 Acting Colonel
1942-12-14 Acting Brigadier
1943-06-16 War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel
1943-06-16 Temporary Colonel
1943-06-16 Temporary Brigadier
1944-03-13 Relinquish the Temporary rank of Brigadier
1944-03-13 Relinquish the Temporary rank of Colonel
1945-03-20 Temporary Colonel
1945-03-20 Temporary Brigadier
1946-04-09 Relinquish the Temporary rank of Brigadier
1948-12-06 Temporary Brigadier
1949-01-18 Colonel
1953-07-11 Brigadier
1954-01-25 Local Major-General
1954-01-29 Temporary Major-General
1955-01-29 Major-General

Service

1941-01-26 1942-02-25 General Staff Officer 2, War Office
1942-02-26 1942-09-30 General Staff Officer 1, War Office
1942-12-14 1944-03-13 Brigadier General Staff, 2nd Anti-Aircraft Group
1944-XX-XX Second-in-Command Anti-Aircraft Troops Headquarters, 21st Army Group [Northwestern Europe]
1944-12-23 1945-03-19 Colonel General Staff, ?
1945-06-22 1946-04-09 Commander Royal Artillery, ?
1946-04-10 1948-12-02 Commandant of ?
1948-12-06 1950-02-05 Deputy Director of Royal Artillery, War Office
1950-12-06 1951-11-07 Deputy Director of Military Operations (B), War Office
1951-12-05 1952-12-15 Commander Royal Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division [Germany]
1954-01-29 1956-07-28 Chief of Staff to the British High Commissioner in Malaya
1957-05-06 1961-03-01 Deputy Master-General of the Ordnance, War Office
1957-05-06 1961-03-01 Deputy Controller of Munitions, Ministry of War
1961-03-01 Assistant Master-General of the Ordnance, War Office
1961-05-01 Retired