The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Leslie Ellis Beavis

Beavis

Leslie Ellis, Major-General

(1895 – 1975)

1938
- 1939
General Staff Officer 1, Army Headquarters
1939
- 1940
Director of Staff Duties, Army Headquarters
1940
Assistant Director of Ordnance Services I Australian Corps
1940
Deputy Director of Ordnance Services Australian Imperial Force [Middle East]
1940
- 1942
Director of Ordnance Services Australian Imperial Force [Middle East]
1941
- 1942
Director of Ordnance Services I Australian Corps [Greece]
1942
Deputy Quartermaster-General, Australian Imperial Force [Middle East]
1942
- 1946
Master-General of the Ordnance, Army Headquarters
1952
Retired
1952
- 1954
Australian High Commissioner in Pakistan
Picture source: Courtesy of Paul Godley