Alexander Gatehouse

Alexander Gatehouse
Born	20 May 1895
Died	1964
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1914–1947
Rank	Major-General
Commands held	Mechanisation Experimental Establishment 4th Armoured Brigade 10th Armoured Division
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Distinguished Service Order & bar Military Cross

Major-General Alexander Hugh Gatehouse DSO & bar MC (20 May 1895–1964) was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 10th Armoured Division during the North African Campaign of World War II.

Military career

Gatehouse was commissioned in to the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1914.^[1] He fought in World War I and then transferred to the Royal Tank Regiment 1931.^[1] He was appointed commandant of the Mechanisation Experimental Establishment at Farnborough in 1933.^[1] He served in World War II as deputy commander of 7th Armoured Brigade in the Western Desert from 1940, as commander of 4th Armoured Brigade in the Western Desert from 1941 and as General Officer Commanding 10th Armoured Division from June 1942.^[1][2] Having led the 10th Armoured Division at Battle of Alam el Halfa in September 1942 and then the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942^[3] he became major-general in charge of administration at Washington D. C. at the end of the year and military attaché in Moscow in 1944 before retiring in 1947.^[1]

Family

In 1920 he married Helen Williams;^[4] they had one son (Sir Robert Alexander Gatehouse, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court).^[5]

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