Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine (August 23, 1899 – August 29, 1965) was a British Army officer during World War II. Biography Erskine was added to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He served in the First World War in France and Belgium. In the thirties he served in India in 1937 and returned back [...]
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George Erskine
May 22nd, 2013 
admin Frank Messervy
May 22nd, 2013 admin Sir Frank Walter Messervy, KCSI, KBE, CB, DSO (Trindad, 1893 – 1974) was a British officer. He was an honorary Army General (1948) of the Indian Army. Early Career He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was appointed second lieutenant of cavalry in the Indian Army January 22, 1913. [...]
Charles Upham
May 21st, 2013 admin Charles Hazlitt Upham VC & Bar (born 21 September 1908 in Christchurch, d. Nov. 22, 1994 ibid) – New Zealand military officer of infantry, one of three and the only one in the history of World War II soldier awarded the Victoria Cross twice. Biography Charles Upham was the son of lawyer John Hazlitt Upham [...]
Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen
May 20th, 2013 admin General Sir Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen (17 April 1889 – March 20, 1963) was a British Army officer during World War I and World War II. Biography Godwin-Austen in 1909 was added to the South Wales Borderers and was for his achievements in the First World War, awarded the Military Cross. At the outbreak of World [...]
Charles Portal
May 20th, 2013 admin Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal (May 21, 1893 – April 22, 1971), it first Viscount Hungerford, was a distinguished officer in the Royal Air Force strategic bombing advocate and chief of air for most of World War. At the beginning of the First World War, he joined the British Army and served as a pilot [...]
Eric Dorman-Smith
May 19th, 2013 admin Eric Edward “Chink” Dorman-Smith (24 July 1895-11 May 1969) was a British officer in the Irish controversial personality. He was a supporter of the motorization of the army (s tank). His career, which promised brilliant, was abruptly interrupted in 1944 by his superiors. He was a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Biography Youth and World War [...]
Geoffrey Keyes
May 18th, 2013 admin Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes (1917-1941, VC, MC, CdG 1939-1945) was a British soldier of the Second World War. Scottish, he is the eldest son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, first Baron Keyes (1872-1945, GCB, KCVO, CMG, DSO) was the first Director of Combined Operations from July 1940 to October 1941. [...]
William Slim
May 18th, 2013 admin William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC (* August 6, 1891 in Bristol, † 14 December 1970 in London) was a British field marshal and the 13th Governor-General of Australia. Early years At the outbreak of World War I was slim lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was [...]
William Platt
May 18th, 2013 admin General Sir William Platt (Brooklands (Cheshire), June 14, 1885 – London, September 28, 1975) was an officer in the British Army, the Australian Army and New Zealand Army during World War I and World War II. Before World War II Platt studied at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In 1908, Platt added [...]
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May 17th, 2013 admin Born as Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas von Battenberg, was the last Viceroy of the ‘British Empire in India and the first Governor General of’ independent India. From 1954 until 1959 he was First Sea Lord (i.e. the Chief of Staff of the British Navy), a position that had been held by his father, Prince [...]
