User:SoLando/Ward

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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 * RETIRED http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveViewFrameSetup.asp?webType=0&PageDuplicate=x0%20%20%20%20%20%20&issueNumber=43809&pageNumber=0&SearchFor=wARD,%20GCB&selMedalType=&selHonourType=
 * Near East Command http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveViewFrameSetup.asp?webType=0&PageDuplicate=x0%20%20%20%20%20%20&issueNumber=42714&pageNumber=0&SearchFor=wARD,%20GCB&selMedalType=&selHonourType=
 * Acting rank of Major-General http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveViewFrameSetup.asp?webType=0&PageDuplicate=n%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&issueNumber=36529&pageNumber=0&SearchFor=D.%20Ward&selMedalType=&selHonourType=