The Generals of WWII
Generals from Great Britain
Bourne
Geoffrey Kemp, General
(1902 – 1982)
Nickname: Baron Bourne of Atherstone (25.08.1964)
1940
- 1942
General Staff Officer 1 ?
1942
Brigadier General Staff, British Army Staff Washington
1942
Commanding Officer 21st Anti-Tank Regiment
1943
- 1944
General Staff Officer 1, South East Asia Command
1944
Brigadier General Staff, South East Asia Command
1944
Commanding Officer 152nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery [Italy]
1945
Brigadier General Staff, I Airborne Corps [North-West Europe]
1945
- 1946
Commander Royal Artillery, 5th Indian Infantry Division [Java]
1946
Acting General Officer Commanding 5th Indian Infantry Division [Java]
1946
- 1947
Commander Royal Artillery, 5th Indian Infantry Division
1947
- 1948
Head of British Services Mission to Burma
1949
- 1951
General Officer Commanding British Sector Berlin [Germany]
1951
- 1952
General Officer Commanding 16th Airborne Division
1953
- 1954
General Officer Commanding in Chief Eastern Command
1954
- 1956
General Officer Commanding Malaya
1954
- 1956
Director of Operations Malaya
1954
- 1967
Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery
1957
- 1958
Commander in Chief Middle East Land Forces
1958
- 1960
Commandant of Imperial Defence College
1959
- 1960
Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen
1960
Retired
1960
- 1965
Honorary Colonel, 10th Battalion Parachute Regiment
Picture source: Courtesy of Paul Godley