James Cassels

Sir Archibald James "Jim" Halkett Cassels , GCB , KBE (born February 28, 1907 in Quetta , British India , today: Pakistan ; † December 13, 1996 in Newmarket , Suffolk ) was a British Army officer and cricketer who most recently as field Marshal (field Marshal) 1965-1968 chief of staff was the British Army.

Life

Officer training, cricketer and World War II

Archibald James "Jim" Halkett Cassels, son of the future General Robert Cassels , completed his education at the renowned rugby school and then began officer training at the Royal Military College Sandhurst . Once finished, he became 1926 lieutenant (Second Lieutenant) in the line infantry regiment Seaforth Highlanders and found in the subsequent period numerous uses as an officer and staff officer. He also played a total of five first-class cricket games between March 17, 1928 and June 1, 1935 , including for the British Army team, where he batting as a right - handed batsman and right-handed fast bowling / off spin bowler average of 39.40 and a bowling average of 20.75.

During the Second World War he was first Local Lieutenant-Colonel on January 28, 1941 and Acting Lieutenant-Colonel on October 5, 1941, and was Deputy Director of the Planning Department (Deputy Director of Plans) in the War Office between 1941 and 1942 . In the following years he was on January 5, 1942 War Substantive Major and also Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel and served between 1942 and 1943 General Staff Officer 1 of the 52nd Infantry Division (52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division) . There he received his promotion to major on August 30, 1943, and on January 10, 1944, he was Acting Colonel and Acting Brigadier . He then served between June 27, 1944, and the May 28, 1945 Commander ( Commanding Officer ) of the 152nd Infantry Brigade (152nd (Seaforth and Cameron) Infantry Brigade) , in which he at the same time on July 10, 1944 Was nouns Lieutenant-Colonel , Temporary Colonel and Temporary Brigadier .

Post-war period and promotion to general

After the war, James Cassels was on 28 May 1945 as Acting Major-General succeeds Major General Gordon MacMillan Commanding General ( General Officer Commanding ) of the 51st Infantry Division ( 51st (Highland) Division ) and remained in this use until February 1946, after which he of Major General Colin Muir Barber was relieved. He broke then in March 1946, Major General Eric Bols as Commanding General of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine 6th Airborne Division used ( 6th Airborne Division ) , and remained in this use until its replacement by Major General Eric Bols in December 1946. During this time he was on March 28, 1946 both were nouns colonel and temporary major-general . On August 19, 1947 he was appointed Colonel (Colonel) promoted, the promotion was backdated to 28 May 1946th After graduating from Imperial Defense College (IDC) in London between 1947 and 1948 , he succeeded Major General Maurice Chilton as Director of Land & Air Warfare in the War Department in January 1948 and remained there until to his replacement by Major General Roger Bower on December 16, 1949. During this time he was initially Temporary Major-General on January 19, 1948 and was promoted to Brigadier General (Brigadier) on March 4, 1948 . On 20 December 1948 he was appointed Major General (Major-General) promoted the carriage of that time was backdated to February 26 1948th

As the successor to Rear Admiral Charles Pizey , Cassels took over the post of Chief Liaison Officer of the British Armed Forces at the Liaison Staff in Australia on December 16, 1949 and held this position until June 10, 1951, after which Air Vice-Marshal Gilbert Harcourt-Smith succeeded him there . He then became the first commanding general of the 1st Commonwealth Division deployed in the Korean War on June 10, 1951 and held this command until he was replaced by Major General Michael West on September 7, 1952. On October 10, 1952, he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". He was then on January 4, 1953 Temporary Lieutenant-General and sparked Lieutenant General Alfred Dudley Ward as Commanding General of the in Germany stationed I. Corps ( I Corps ) . During this use he was on February 2, 1954, his promotion to Lieutenant General (Lieutenant-General) . He held this position until October 15, 1954, whereupon Lieutenant General Hugh Stockwell was his successor.

After his return, Lieutenant General Sir James Cassels was on November 15, 1954 Director-General of Military Training in the War Office (Director-General of Military Training, War Office) and thus successor to Lieutenant General Colin Callander . He held this position until August 23, 1957 and was then replaced by Lieutenant General Gerald Lathbury . Then he was during the so-called Malayan Emergency , an armed conflict in the Malaya Federation on September 17, 1957 Director of the local military operation (Director of Emergency Operations) and held this position until January 6, 1959. He was also from March 15, 1957 to February 7, 1961 Colonel of Honor of The Seaforth Highlanders and also from May 27, 1957 to February 29, 1968 Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Royal Military Police & Gurkha Military Police . On 29 November 1958 he was appointed General transported and released on June 29, 1959 Lieutenant General Charles Coleman commander in chief of the Ostkommandos (General Officer Commanding in Chief, Eastern Command) and held this command until his but repeated replacement by General Gerald Lathbury on January 6 1960 held.

Chief of the General Staff of the British Army

On January 7, 1960 returned General Cassels returned to Germany and was again as a successor to General Alfred Dudley Ward commander in chief of the British Army of the Rhine BAOR (Commander in Chief, British Army of the Rhine) and in personal union also supreme commander of NATO -Heeresgruppe North NORTHAG ( Northern Army Group ) . In both functions he was replaced on April 1, 1963 by General William Gurdon Stirling . In addition, he acted between April 29, 1960 and April 29, 1963 as aide-de-camp of Queen Elizabeth II and was also accepted on December 31, 1960 as Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Bath (GCB). He was also from January 1, 1961 to January 1, 1966 Colonel Commandant of the Army Physical Training Corps and between February 7, 1961 and February 7, 1966, Colonel of Honor of the Infantry Regiment The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) .

Sir James Cassels took over on June 1, 1963 at the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense of General Richard Goodbody the post of Adjutant General of the Armed Forces (Adjutant General to the Forces) and had this to October 26, 1964 after which General Reginald Hewetson became his successor. Most recently, he was the successor of General Richard Hull on February 8, 1965 Chief of General Staff (General Staff Chief) of the British Army. He held this post until his retirement on March 1, 1968 and was then replaced by General Geoffrey Harding Baker . On the day before his retirement from active military service, he was born on February 29, 1968 nor to Field Marshal (Field Marshal) transported.

Web links

• SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860
• MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND TRI-SERVICE SENIOR APPOINTMENTS
• Entry in generals.dk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860, p. 537
2. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860, p. 240
3. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860, p. 225
4. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860, p. 65
5. ↑ MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND TRI-SERVICE SENIOR APPOINTMENTS, p. 44
6. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860, p. 221
7. ↑ ^{a b} Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
8. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860, p. 200
9. ↑ ^{a b} SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860, p. 34
10. ↑ ^{a b} SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860, p. 135
11. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: SINCE 1860, p. 6