The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Giffard Le Quesne Martel

Martel, Giffard Le Quesne

Lieutenant-General

* 10th of October 1889

† 3rd of September 1958

(Royal Engineers)

Nickname: Q

Promotions

1928-01-01 Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
1933-07-21 Lieutenant-Colonel
1936-10-01 Colonel (Dated back to 1931-01-01)
1938-01-01 Temporary Brigadier
1939-02-20 Major-General (Dated back to 1938-05-19)
1940-12-09 Acting Lieutenant-General
1941-12-09 Temporary Lieutenant-General
1942-04-12 Lieutenant-General

Service

1930-07-21 1934-02-25 Instructor at Staff College Quetta [India]
1936-10-21 1938-12-31 Assistant Director of Mechanisation, War Office
1938-01-01 1939-02-20 Deputy Director of Mechanisation, War Office
1939-02-20 1940-10-08 General Officer Commanding 50th Infantry Division [France]
1940-12-09 1942-09-XX General Officer Commanding Royal Armoured Corps
1943-03-XX 1944-XX-XX Head of the British Military Mission to Soviet Union
1944-07-31 Retired
1944-10-15 1954-10-15 Colonel-Commandant, Royal Engineers
Picture source: NPG x83846, National Portrait Gallery, London