Talk:Richard Gale (British Army officer)

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Service biography

World War I 1915-1918
- 2nd Lt, Worcestershire Regiment 1915
- Machine Gun Corps
- Awarded Military Cross 1918
Capt, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1930
Maj, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 1938
World War II 1939-1945
- 1 Parachute Brigade
- 6 Airborne Division, Battle of Normandy 1944
- Deputy Commander, 1 Allied Airborne Army 1945
- Commander, I British Airborne Corps 1945
1 Infantry Div 1946-1947
General Officer Commanding British Troops, Egypt and Mediterranean Command 1948-1949
Director General of Military Training, War Office 1949-1952
Commander-in-Chief, Northern Army Group, Allied Land Forces, Europe and British Army of the Rhine 1952-1957
Retired 1957
Re-employed as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe 1958-1960

Source: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives