Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell

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Sir Wilfrid Lindsell, 1941

Sir Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell , GBE , KCB , DSO , MC (born September 29, 1884 in Portsmouth ; † May 2, 1973 ) was a British Lieutenant General in the British Army , who was last among other things Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery between 1945 and 1950 .

Life

Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell, son of Colonel Robert Lindsell and his wife Kathleen Eaton, completed an officer training at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich after attending Birkenhead School and Victoria College . For his military service in the First World War he was promoted to captain of the Royal Artillery and mentioned in the war report ( Mentioned in dispatches ) . He was also awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and the Military Cross (MC). In 1919 he was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). After attending Staff College Camberley , he found numerous uses as an officer and staff officer. He was from 1930 to 1933 First General Staff Officer in the Ministry of War ( War Office ) and then between September 1933 and May 1935 as Brigadier General (Brigadie) commander of the Senior Officers' School in Sheerness . Then he served from May 1935 to September 1936 as Deputy Military Secretary (Deputy Military Secretary) at the War Office, and between September 1936 and May 1938 as commander of the artillery troops of the 4th Division ( 4th Division ) as Major General (Major-General) he was from May 1938 until August 1939 Chief Administration Officer at the headquarters of the Army Command South (Southern Command)

At the beginning of World War II was Lindsell on 4 September 1939 as Acting Lieutenant General (Acting Lieutenant-General) Quartermaster General in France Expeditionary Force deployed BEF ( British Expeditionary Force ) and took it to the Battle of Dunkirk (May 26-June 5 1940), which ended with a victory for the German armed forces and the evacuation of the Allied troops. On his return he was Quartermaster General of the Home Forces from 1940 to 1941 . On July 11, 1940, he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". On June 1, 1941, he became Chief Military Advisor to the Ministry of Supply and served between 1941 and 1942 as Master-General of the Ordnance in the Ministry of War. He was responsible for artillery, engineering troops, fortifications, military needs, transport and field hospitals and remained in this post until 1942, after which he was head of the administration of the Army Command in the Middle East (Middle East Command) from 1942 to 1943 . In 1942 he was also accepted as a Companion in the Order of the Bath (CB) and on February 18, 1943 he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB).

Sir Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell was last from 14 October 1943 until his retirement in 1945 First Administrative Staff Officer (Principal Administration Officer) in the army command in British India (Army Headquarters India) . After retiring from active military service, he served between 1945 and September 14, 1950 as Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery and was also elevated to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire on January 1, 1946 . His two daughters Priscilla Guelbi Jermyn Lindsell and Jenifer Joan Lindsell emerged from his marriage to Margorie Holland.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 324
  2. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 14
  3. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 217
  4. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 217
  5. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  6. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  7. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
personal data
SURNAME Lindsell, Wilfrid Gordon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Portsmouth
DATE OF DEATH May 2nd 1973