Guy Gregson

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Guy Gregson
Born(1906-04-08)8 April 1906[1]
Cape Town, South Africa[2]
Died10 December 1988(1988-12-10) (aged 82)
Sudbury, Suffolk, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
Years of service1925–1968
RankMajor General
Service number34436
UnitRoyal Artillery
Commands1st Infantry Division
Battles / warsSecond World War
Korean War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order & Bar
Military Cross
Mentioned in Despatches (2)

Major General Guy Patrick Gregson, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC (8 April 1906 – 10 December 1988) was a British Army officer who served General Officer Commanding of the 1st Infantry Division from 1956 to 1959.

Military career

Educated at Gresham's School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Gregson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1925 and saw active service in the Second World War in the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was mentioned in despatches twice and received the Military Cross, the Distinguished Service Order and Bar and the Croix de Guerre.[3] Promoted to brigadier in 1950, he served in the Korean War and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1953.[3] He was made General Officer Commanding 1st Infantry Division in 1956 and Regional Director of Civil Defence for the UK's Eastern Region in 1960 before retiring in 1968.[3]

In 1945, Gregson married Oriel Leonie Lucas-Scudamore in Sherman, Connecticut.[4] They divorced and he remarried Iris Slade-Powell.[5]

References

  1. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007
  2. ^ 1911 England Census
  3. ^ a b c GREGSON, Major-General Guy Patrick in Who Was Who 1897–2006 online, Retrieved 22 August 2007
  4. ^ Connecticut Marriage Records, 1897–1968
  5. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916–2005
Military offices
Preceded by GOC 1st Infantry Division
1956–1959 		Succeeded by
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