Douglas Packard
Charles Douglas Packard , KBE , CB , DSO (born May 17, 1903 near Ipswich ; † November 20, 1999 ) was a British Lieutenant General in the British Army , who was last commanding general of the Northern Ireland Military District between 1958 and 1961 .
Life
Charles Douglas Packard, son of Captain CT Packard, MC , completed an officer training after school and was accepted into the British Army as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1923 . In the following years, he found a variety of uses as an officer and staff officer and was among other things during the Second World War, 1941-1942 First General Staff Officer of the Eighth Army ( Eighth Army ) . He was the 1942 Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire awarded (OBE) and was 1942 and 1943 Commander ( Commanding Officer ) of the 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery , 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery . For his services, he was the 1943 Distinguished Service Order (DSO) awarded and he was between 27 June and 20 December 1944 as Brigadier (Brigadier) commander in Italy and North Africa 36th Infantry Brigade deployed (36th Infantry Brigade) . In the further course of the war he was Deputy Chief of Staff of the 15th Army Group between 1944 and 1945 and in 1945 was also Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services .
After the end of the war, he served as Chief of Staff of the Allied Commission for Austria between 1945 and 1946 . After further uses Packard served as Major General (Major-General) from January 1948 to December 1949 Director of Military Intelligence in the War Office (Director of Military Intelligence, War Office ) and was 1949 Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB). He then held the post of head of the British Military Mission in Greece from 1949 to 1951 and between March 1951 and January 1953 as Chief of Staff of the Land Forces in the Middle East (Middle East Land Forces) . He then returned to the War Office and was there from March 1953 to March 1956 Vice Quartermaster-General (War Office) and then from 1956 to 1958 military advisor to the governments in West Africa . On January 13, 1957 he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir".
Most recently, Sir Douglas Packard in July 1958 as a lieutenant general (Lieutenant General) succeeds Lieutenant General Brian Kimmins as Commanding General of the Military District Northern Ireland (General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District) . He held this post until his retirement in July 1961, when he was replaced by Lieutenant General John Hackett .
Web links
- Entry in Generals of World War II
- Packard, Lt-Gen. Sir (Charles) Douglas in Who's Who (top of the online version)
- SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860
Individual evidence
- ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 29
- ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 150
- ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 49
- ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 107
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Packard, Douglas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Packard, Charles Douglas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Lieutenant General |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ipswich |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1999 |