Philip Neame

Philip Neame medal table
Neame (center) with Generals John Combe (left), Michael Gambier-Parry (right) and Richard O'Connor (center, background)
Sport shooting
United Kingdom
Olympic games
gold	Paris 1924	Serial Stag, double shot (M)

Sir Philip Neame , VC CB KBE KStJ (born December 12, 1888 in Faversham , † April 28, 1978 in Selling ) was a British lieutenant general and marksman .

Military career

After graduating from Cheltenham College , Neame attended the Royal Military Academy Woolwich , which he graduated in 1908. He was then transferred to the pioneers . In 1910 he was promoted to lieutenant .

In the First World War he fought with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from October 1914 . For rescuing several comrades under heavy enemy fire in December 1914, he was awarded the Victoria Cross in February 1915 . Also in February 1915 he was Mentioned in dispatches and he was promoted to captain . In January 1916 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order . At the end of the year he became a brevet Major transported. In August 1918, he was temporarily promoted to Lieutenant Colonel . After the war he received numerous awards, such as the Knight's Cross of the French Legion of Honor , the Croix de guerre and the Belgian War Cross .

In February 1925, Neame became a major . He attended the Royal College of Defense Studies from 1930 and rose to Colonel two years later . He was then stationed in British India , where he was injured by a tiger while hunting. In late 1933 Neame married Harriet Drew, a nurse who had taken care of him after his hunting accident. He had four children with her. In March 1938 he was promoted to major general and was transferred to the management post of the Royal Military Academy Woolwich. Nine months later he was named Companion of the Order of the Bath .

With the outbreak of the Second World War , he initially received command posts in Egypt , the Mandate Palestine and Transjordan . In February 1941 he became the commander of Kyrenaika , which was captured in the course of Operation Compass in the fight against Italy . On April 6, 1941, Neame drove in a convoy that was captured by a German shock group led by Gerhard Graf von Schwerin . Together with Lieutenant General Sir Richard O'Connor and Brigadier General John Combe , he spent the next two and a half years as a prisoner of war, mainly in the Castello di Vincigliati near Florence . With the Italian armistice of Cassibile , the captivity ended in September 1943. On December 25, 1943 he returned to England.

On August 28, 1945 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey and held this post as Lieutenant General until 1953. In addition, he was from 1945 to 1955 Colonel Commandant of the Engineer Corps. In June 1946 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire , with which Neame was raised to the nobility and henceforth was addressed as " Sir ". In the same year he also received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Saint John . In January 1955, Neame was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Kent .

Sporting successes

Philip Neame took part in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris in the team competition on the running deer in a double shot. He managed with the team a narrow victory over Norway, whose team had scored 262 points, one point less than the British team. In addition to Neame, who achieved the British’s weakest result with 51 points, the team that became Olympic champions also included Cyril Mackworth-Praed , Allen Whitty and Herbert Perry .

Web links

• Philip Neame in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 28408, HMSO, London, August 19, 1910, p. 6039 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 29074, HMSO, London, February 16, 1915, p. 1700 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 29422, HMSO, London, December 31, 1915, p. 22 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 29438, HMSO, London, January 11, 1916, p. 575 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
5. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 29886, HMSO, London, December 29, 1916, p. 18 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
6. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 30837, HMSO, London, August 9, 1918, p. 9421 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
7. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 31109, HMSO, London, January 3, 1919, p. 312 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
8. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 31465, HMSO, London, July 18, 1919, p. 9221 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
9. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 31537, HMSO, London, September 2, 1919, p. 11212 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
10. ↑ London Gazette . No. 33025, HMSO, London, February 27, 1925, p. 1427 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
11. ↑ Philip Neame. In: neamefamily.com. Retrieved February 6, 2020 . 
12. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34490, HMSO, London, March 8, 1938, p. 1507 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
13. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34490, HMSO, London, March 8, 1938, p. 1508 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
14. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 34585, HMSO, London, December 30, 1938, p. 4 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
15. ↑ London Gazette . No. 37243, HMSO, London, August 28, 1945, p. 4345 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
16. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 37598, HMSO, London, June 4, 1946, p. 2768 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
17. ↑ London Gazette . No. 37632, HMSO, London, June 28, 1946, p. 3288 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).
18. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 40378, HMSO, London, January 7, 1955, p. 156 ( PDF , accessed February 6, 2020, English).