The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Denis Walter Price

Price, Denis Walter

Major-General

* 28th of October 1908

† 19th of March 1966

(Royal Engineers)

Promotions

1941-12-15 Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-03-15 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-03-15 War Substantive Major
1943-03-01 Acting Colonel
1943-03-01 Acting Brigadier
1943-07-02 Relinquish the Acting rank of Brigadier
1943-07-02 Relinquish the Acting rank of Colonel
1943-07-02 Relinquish the Temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
1943-10-17 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1944-01-16 Acting Colonel
1944-03-14 War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel
1944-03-14 Temporary Colonel
1944-12-16 Acting Brigadier
1945-02-12 Temporary Brigadier
1945-07-10 Relinquish the Temporary rank of Brigadier
1945-12-21 Relinquish the Temporary rank of Colonel
1946-01-31 Major
1948-11-15 Temporary Colonel
1949-02-21 Colonel
1953-01-12 Local Brigadier
1953-01-15 Temporary Brigadier
1955-01-01 Brigadier
1959-01-15 Temporary Major-General
1959-03-15 Major-General

Service

1941-01-13 1941-12-14 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Royal Marines Division
1941-12-15 1943-02-28 General Staff Officer 1, Combined Operations Headquarters
1943-03-01 1943-07-02 Brigadier General Staff, ?
1943-10-17 1944-01-15 General Staff Officer 1, ?
1944-01-16 1944-12-15 Colonel General Staff, Combined Operations, South-East Asia Command
1944-12-16 1945-06-21 Brigadier General Staff, Combined Operations, South-East Asia Command
1945-XX-XX Commanding Officer 41st Indian Beach Group
1946-XX-XX Commander Royal Engineers, 5th Indian Infantry Division
1947-XX-XX Commander Royal Engineers, Force 110
1947-05-01 1948-11-01 General Staff Officer 1, ?
1948-11-15 1949-02-28 Colonel (Intelligence), ?
1949-03-01 1951-03-31 Colonel General Staff, London Echelon, Commander in Chief's Committee, Western European Union
1951-04-01 1951-12-18 Colonel General Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
1952-XX-XX Attendant at Imperial Defence College
1953-01-15 1956-01-29 Deputy Adjutant-General, Far East Land Forces
1956-05-23 1958-10-31 Commander of British Services Security Organisation Germany
1959-01-15 1962-01-17 Chief of Staff, British Joint Staff Mission Washington
1962-05-10 Retired