Ouvry Lindfield Roberts
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Lieutenant-General Sir Ouvry Lindfield Roberts, KCB, KBE, CB, CBE, DSO] (born 3 April 1898; died 1986) was an officer in the British Army and the British Indian Army during World War I and World War II.
During the Anglo-Iraqi War, Roberts commanded the ground forces defending RAF Habbaniya.
[edit] Command history
- Deputy Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, India - 1939 to 1941
- General Staff Officer 1, Indian 10th Infantry Division, Iraq - 1941
- Commanding Officer, Indian 20th Infantry Brigade, Iraq - 1941
- Commanding Officer, 16th Infantry Brigade, Ceylon - 1942
- Brigadier General Staff Indian IV Corps - 1943
- General Officer Commanding, Indian 23rd Infantry Division, Burma - 1943 to 1945
- General Officer Commanding Indian XXXIV Corps, Malaya - 1945
- Deputy Adjutant-General, War Office - 1945 to 1947
- General Officer Commanding, Northern Ireland - 1948 to 1949
- General Officer Commander in Chief, Southern Command - 1949 to 1952
- Quartermaster-General, War Office - 1952 to 1955
- Aide-de-Camp, General to the Queen - 1952 to 1955
- Retired - 1955
