Guy Gregson

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Guy Gregson
Born8 April 1906[1]
Cape Town, South Africa[2]
Died10 December 1988(1988-12-10) (aged 82)
Sudbury, Suffolk, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branchFlag of the British Army.svg British Army
Years of service1925–1968
RankMajor-General
Commands held1st Division
Battles/warsWorld War II
Korean War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order & Bar
Military Cross

Major-General Guy Patrick Gregson CB CBE DSO & Bar MC (8 April 1906 – 10 December 1988) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 1st Division.

Military career[]

Educated at Gresham's School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Gregson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1925 and saw active service in the Second World War in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel being mentioned in despatches twice and receiving the MC, the DSO & Bar and the Croix de Guerre.[3] Promoted to Brigadier in 1950, he served in the Korean War and was appointed CBE in 1953.[3] He was made General Officer Commanding 1st Division in 1956 and Regional Director of Civil Defence for the UK's Eastern Region in 1960 before retiring in 1968.[3]

In 1945, he married Oriel Leonie Lucas-Scudamore in Sherman, Connecticut.[4] They divorced and he remarried Iris Slade-Powell.[5]

Honours[]

References[]

  1. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007
  2. ^ 1911 England Census
  3. ^ a b c GREGSON, Major-General Guy Patrick in Who Was Who 1897–2006 online, Retrieved 22 August 2007
  4. ^ Connecticut Marriage Records, 1897–1968
  5. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916–2005
Military offices
Preceded by General Officer Commanding the 1st Division
1956–1959 		Succeeded by


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