User:SoLando/Ward

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General Sir Alfred Dudley Ward (1905-1991) GCB KBE DSO

  • Wimborne Grammar School
  • 3 years in ranks(!) before Sandhurst
  • Commissioned Dorset Regiment '29
  • Staff College, Camberley '34-35
  • King's Regiment '37
  • First 3 years of war with home forces
  • BGS XI Corps '42
  • GOC 231st Brigade '42-43
  • Italy- 17th Brigade Oct 43 (quote here if you want it)
  • GOC 4th Div Apr '44
  • DSO
  • Chief of Staff to Scobie(?), GOC British troops in Greece '44-45 (that was Scobie's position rather than Ward's)
  • CBE & CB, end of war
  • Director of Military Operations at War Office '47-48
  • Commandant at Camberley '48-51
  • GOC I Corps 51-52
  • Knighted '53
  • Deputy CIGS '53-56
  • CinC BAOR '57-59
  • CinC British Forces in the Near East(?)
  • Governor and CinC Gibraltar '62 (like Kenneth Anderson, who I wrote up on Tuesday!)
  • Helped introduce Gibraltar's constitution
  • Colonel K's Reg '47-'57
  • Col Com of REME (why him?) '58-'63
  • DL Suffolk '68-'84

All from Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War, Nick Smart. ISBN 1844150496. A google books search wasn't very fruitful, just a mention in an Order of Battle, but I didn't look very hard


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