Английская Википедия:Aubrey Williams (British Army officer)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox military person Major General Aubrey Ellis Williams Шаблон:Postnominals (19 May 1888 – 25 March 1977) was a senior British Army officer who served in both the First World War and Second World War.
Military career
The son of a British Army officer, Lieutenant Colonel D. E. Williams, Aubrey Williams was born on 19 May 1888 and was educated at Monmouth School for Boys.Шаблон:Sfn He later entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the South Wales Borderers on 9 October 1907.[1]Шаблон:Sfn He was promoted to lieutenant on 9 June 1909.[2]
Williams fought in the First World War and received a promotion to the rank of captain on 22 October 1914.[3]Шаблон:Sfn After seeing action in the Gallipoli campaign,[4] and after being awarded the Military Cross (MC) in 1916,[5] he served as a staff officer with the 30th Division on the Western Front, earning recognition with his appointment as a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).[6] The citation for his DSO reads:[7]
He was wounded twice and was also mentioned in despatches five times during his service in the First World War.Шаблон:Sfn
Williams also saw action during the Waziristan campaign in late 1937 earning him a bar to his DSO in August 1938.[8][4]
He became commander of the 160th Infantry Brigade, part of the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division, in February 1939[9] and, in April 1940, seven months after the outbreak of the Second World War, went with his brigade to Northern Ireland where it was mainly involved in anti-invasion duties and exercises training to repel a potential German invasion of Northern Ireland.[10] After being promoted to the permanent rank of major general on 10 May (with his seniority dating back to 23 July 1938)[11] he became General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 38th (Welsh) Division in the United Kingdom that same day before retiring from the army in October.[9]
In retirement he was local President of the Royal British Legion on the Isle of Wight.[4]
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