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CHARRINGTON, Brig Harold Vincent Spencer (1886-1965) 12th Royal Lancers

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MILITARY HISTORY GENERAL
SCARCE
Author: CHARRINGTON, Brig Harold Vincent Spencer (1886-1965)
Born in 1886; 2nd Lt 12 (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers, 1905; Lt, 1907; employed with Egyptian Army, 1913-1914; Capt, 1914; served World War One, France and Belgium, 1914-1918; acting Maj, 1916, 1917-1919; Brevet Maj, 1919; Maj, 1923; General Staff Officer, Grade 3, War Office, 1923; Commander, Company of Gentleman Cadets, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and General Staff Officer, Grade 2, 1923-1925; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, and temporary Lt Col, 1925-1926; Lt Col, 1927; Commander, 12 (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers, 1927-1931; [Commander 6 Midland Cavalry Bde (Territorial Army), 1931-1932]; retired 1932; director of Charringtons Brewery, 1932; member of His Majesty’s Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, 1935; recalled to service, and served in World War Two, 1939-1945; General Staff Officer, Grade 1, Aldershot Command, [1939-1940]; Commander 1 Armoured Bde, Middle East and Greece, 1940-1941; Commander Fighting Vehicles Section, General Headquarters, Cairo, Egypt, May-Jul 1941; invalided back to England, Jul 1941; Commander of an Armoured Div, 1941-1943; Honorary Brig, 1943; retired, 1943; Personal Assistant to FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1945[-1946]; died 1965.

#141022 Bookplate on fpd. Captain Aubrey Gibson, Royal Scots Greys, 1930. First Edition.

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AuthorCHARRINGTON, Brig Harold Vincent Spencer (1886-1965) 12th Royal Lancers
Number of pages63
PublisherHugh Rees, London
Year Published1927
Binding Type

Hardcover. Original cloth

Book Condition

Very Good for its age.

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