Douglas Brownrigg
Sir Douglas Brownrigg | |
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Born | 21 April 1886 |
Died | 7 February 1946 (aged 59) |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | British Army |
Years of service | 1905–1940 |
Rank | Lieutenant General |
Commands held | 159th (Welsh Border) Infantry Brigade 51st (Highland) Division |
Battles/wars | World War I World War II |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order |
Lieutenant General Sir Wellesley Douglas Studholme Brownrigg KCB DSO (21 April 1886 – 7 February 1946) was a senior British Army officer who became Military Secretary.
Military career[]
Brownrigg was commissioned into the 1st Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters in 1905.[1] He became adjutant of his regiment in 1910.[1]
He served in the First World War in the 13th Division and fought at Gallipoli in 1915 and then in Mesopotamia during the remaining years of the war.[1]
After the War he became deputy assistant adjutant general at the War Office and then became a general staff officer at the Royal Military College Sandhurst.[1] He returned to the War Office as a general service officer in 1923 and became assistant adjutant and quartermaster general for the Shanghai Defence Force in China in 1927.[1] He was placed in charge of Administration for the North China Command in 1928.[1] He was appointed commander of 159th (Welsh Border) Infantry Brigade in 1933 and general officer commanding 51st (Highland) Division in 1935.[1]
He became Military Secretary in 1938 and director general of the Territorial Army in 1939.[1]
He took part in World War II as adjutant-general of the British Expeditionary Force in 1939 and retired in 1940.[1] He was a sector and zone commander for the Home Guard for the rest of the war.[1] In late 1942, Brownrigg was employed as the military advisor for the British film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. The film was about an officer called Major-General Wynne-Candy, whose fictional career was rather similar to Brownrigg's, as he had served with distinction in the First World War, was retired after Dunkirk and then had taken a senior role in the Home Guard.[2]
Personal life[]
In 1919 he married Mona Jeffreys.[3] Sir Douglas Brownrigg and Lady Brownrigg were keen dog breeders who imported two of the first Shih Tzus into the United Kingdom from China.[4] His memoirs; Unexpected (a book of memories), were published in 1942.[5]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j "Brownrigg, Douglas". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ Penny, Summerfield; Peniston-Bird, Corinna (2007). Contesting Home Defense: Men, Women, and the Home Guard in the Second World War. Manchester University Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-0719062025.
- ^ "Douglas Brownrigg". Unit Histories. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ "Early days with Lady Brownrigg". Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
- ^ Brownrigg, Douglas (1942). Unexpected (A Book of Memories). Hutchinson.
- 1886 births
- 1946 deaths
- Sherwood Foresters officers
- British Army generals of World War II
- British Home Guard officers
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
- War Office personnel in World War II