The Generals of WWII
Generals from Great Britain
Bucknall
Gerard Corfield, Lieutenant-General
(1894 – 1980)
Nickname: Jerry
1937
- 1939
Instructor at Royal Military College Kingston [Canada]
1939
Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion The Middlesex Regiment
1939
- 1940
Assistant Quartermaster-General, War Office
1940
Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General ?
1940
Assisant Adjtant-General, British Expeditionary Force [France]
1940
Commanding Officer ? Area, Local Defence Vonlunteers
1940
- 1941
Commanding Officer 138th Infantry Brigade
1941
- 1942
General Officer Commanding 53rd Infantry Division
1942
- 1943
General Officer Commanding ? Corps
1943
General Officer Commanding I Corps
1943
- 1944
General Officer Commanding 5th Infantry Division [Italy]
1944
General Officer Commanding XXX Corps [North-West Europe]
1944
- 1947
District Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District
1948
Retired
1952
- 1959
Colonel, The Middlesex Regiment
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