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Sir John Westall
Born1901
Napier, New Zealand
Died1986
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service / branch Royal Marines
Years of service1919–1955
RankGeneral
CommandsCommandant General Royal Marines
Battles / warsSecond World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

General Sir John Chaddesley Westall KCB, CBE (1901–1986) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1952 to 1955.

Military career

Born in Napier, New Zealand,[1] Westall joined the Royal Marines in 1919.[2] He served in the Second World War as a Staff Officer in intelligence activities in Singapore and Malaya from 1939 and as a Staff Officer in intelligence activities in India and Burma from 1942 before becoming a Staff Officer at the Director of Naval Intelligence Department in the Admiralty in 1944.[2] After the war he became Commander of Infantry Training Centre, Royal Marines and then a Staff Officer in intelligence activities in Cape Town from 1947.[2] He was appointed Chief Staff Officer at Plymouth in 1948, Commander of the Royal Marine Barracks at Plymouth in 1949 and Commander of the Royal Marine Barracks at Deal in 1950.[2] He went on to be Chief of Staff to the Commandant General Royal Marines in 1951, and Commandant General Royal Marines in 1952 before retiring in 1955.[2]

References

Military offices
Preceded by Commandant General Royal Marines
1952–1955
Succeeded by

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