The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Ondřej Mézl

Mézl, Ondřej

Major-General

* 2nd of December 1887

† 6th of September 1968

Promotions

1920-04-01 Lieutenant-Colonel (Czech Legion)
1920-09-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1923-06-28 Colonel
1930-11-13 Brigadier-General
1936-03-05 Major-General

Service

1919-01-17 1920-07-07 Deputy Commanding Officer 6th Czechoslovakian Rifle Regiment
1920-07-07 1920-09-24 Commanding Officer 6th Czechoslovakian Rifle Regiment
1920-09-24 1921-04-XX Commanding Officer 6th Border Battalion
1921-04-XX 1921-08-XX Attending the Information Course for Generals & Colonels, Prague
1921-08-XX 1924-01-01 Commanding Officer 6th Border Battalion
1924-01-01 1925-01-01 Commanding Officer 1st Infantry Regiment
1925-01-01 1925-03-09 Attached to the Military Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1925-03-09 1928-09-30 Military Attaché to Yugoslavia
1928-10-01 1929-10-15 Attending the Senior Commanders' Course
1929-10-15 1929-12-01 Commanding Officer 8th Infantry Regiment
1929-12-01 1931-05-XX Commanding Officer 13th Infantry Brigade
1931-05-XX 1933-04-02 Commanding Officer 9th Infantry Brigade
1933-04-02 1936-06-30 Commanding Officer 1st Mountain Brigade
1936-09-30 1938-09-26 General Officer Commanding VI Corps
1938-09-26 1938-12-06 General Officer Commanding XVI Border Zone
1938-12-06 1939-03-14 General Officer Commanding VI Corps
1940-01-XX Fled to France
1940-03-XX 1940-08-13 Envoy for Southeastern Europe, Czechoslovakian Military Administration
1940-08-13 1943-11-30 Head of the Czechoslovakian Military Mission in the Middle East
1944-04-26 1944-07-28 Head of the Czechoslovakian Military Mission with British 21st Army Group
1944-07-28 1945-05-02 Head of the Czechoslovakian Military Mission with Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
1946-02-01 Retired
Picture source: From: "Diskriminace a perzekuce vojáků v Československu v letech 1945-1955" by František Hanzlík