The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Maurice Lea-Cox

Lea-Cox, Maurice

Major-General

* 8th of February 1898

† 23rd of May 1974

(Royal Artillery)

Promotions

1940-01-05 Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
1940-02-29 Relinquish the Acting rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
1940-04-20 Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
1940-05-26 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1941-03-21 Acting Colonel
1941-03-21 Acting Brigadier
1941-09-21 War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel
1941-09-21 Temporary Colonel
1941-09-21 Temporary Brigadier
1944-09-19 Colonel
1948-11-04 Brigadier
1951-04-16 Temporary Major-General
1951-05-19 Major-General

Service

1940-04-20 1941-01-20 Assistant Quartermaster-General, ?
1941-03-21 1945-XX-XX Deputy Director of Warlike Stores, War Office
1946-XX-XX Deputy Director of Ordnance Services, War Office
1948-04-XX 1951-03-XX Director of Ordnance Services, British Army of the Rhine [Germany]
1951-04-16 1954-03-XX Commander of Mechanical Transport Organisation
1954-04-06 Retired