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Old June 28th, 2003, 06:40 PM
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Major-General George Philip Bradley Roberts
Nickname: Pip

Born 05.11.1906
Died 1997

Decorations: Military Cross (8.7.1941); Mention in Despatches (15.12.1942 & 9.8.1945); Distinguished Service Order (13.8.1942) and Bar (28.1.1943 & 8.7.1943); Companion of the Order of the Bath (1.2.1945); Officier Légion d'Honneur; Croix de Guerre avec palmes

04.02.1926 2nd Lieutenant
04.02.1929 Lieutenant
30.09.1936 Captain
04.01.1942 War Substantive/Major
04.02.1943 Major
26.01.1943 War Substantive/Lieutenant-Colonel
06.12.1944 War Substantive/Colonel
18.06.1947 (sen. 24.3.1945) Major-General

Education: Marlborough; Royal Military College, Sandhurst

04.02.1926 commissioned, Royal Tank Corps (initially stationed at Lydd)
00.00.1928-00.00.1931 served, 3rd Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps (Egypt)
00.00.1931-00.01.1933 served, ? (Egypt)
21.01.1933-20.01.1937 Assistant Instructor, Tank Driving & Maintenance School (Bovington, Dorset, UK)
00.01.1937-06.12.1938 served, 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Egypt)
07.12.1938-15.03.1940 Adjutant, 6th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (Egypt)
16.03.1940-00.12.1940 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, 7th Armoured Division (N Africa) (A/Maj., from 16.6.1940-19.7.1940 & 17.10.1940-3.1.1942 T/Maj.)
00.12.1940 Brigade Major, 4th Armoured Brigade (N Africa)
00.03.1941 General Staff Officer 2nd grade (GSO2), 7th Armoured Division (N Africa)
04.10.1941-03.01.1942 Assistant Quartermaster-General, XXX Corps (N Africa) (A/Lt.Col.)
04.01.1942 Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (N Africa) (from 4.1.1942-25.1.1943 T/Lt.Col. )
23.07.1942-17.09.1942 Commander, 22nd Armoured Brigade Group (Egypt) (from 23.7.1942-14.8.1942 & 21.8.1942-25.1.1943 A/Col. & A/Brig.), redesignated:
17.09.1942-20.01.1943 Commander, 22nd Armoured Brigade (Egypt, Libya) (A/Brig.)
20.01.1943-25.01.1943 acting General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division (Lybia) (A/Brig.)
26.01.1943- (from 26.1.1943-5.12.1944 T/Col. & T/Brig.)
13.03.1943-19.06.1943 Commander, 26th Armoured Brigade (N Africa)
20.07.1943-06.12.1943 Commander, 30th Armoured Brigade (UK)
06.12.1943-00.00.1946 General Officer Commanding, 11th Armoured Division (UK, NW Europe) (A/Maj.Gen., from 6.12.1944 T/Maj.Gen.)
00.00.1947-00.00.1948 General Officer Commanding, 7th Armoured Division
00.00.1948 General Officer Commanding Hanover District, Germany
00.00.1948-00.00.1949 Director, Royal Armoured Corps, War Office (London)
11.09.1949 retired

1949-1964 Director of Scribbans-Kemp, biscuit, cake and sweet manufacturers

1963-1970 Honorary Colonel, Kent and County of London Yeomanry Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry Regiment, T&AVR

1960-1970 Justice of the Peace, County of Kent

http://houterman.htmlplanet.com/bio/Roberts_GPB.html

If someone has info on Pip´s life please send it here!
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Great kai. He was the youngest divisional commanders in the British Army when he took over 11th armoured. he was also one of the best armour tacticians in the western armies. he helped pioneer all arms operations in the normandy campaign when the british were found lacking. when given the freedom to operate he succeeded brilliantly. only when he was limited by the powers that be, most notably dempsey during goodwood, was things harder for him.
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Absolutely - I've always thought that Roberts is another of those 'great unknowns' who got on with the job....
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Kai if your interested roberts produced a biography. this is it:

Roberts G P B (1987) From the Desert to the Baltic
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thanx Mahross!

I´ll put it on paper so I remember it next time I go abroad!

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Thanks for that, mahross - that's one I didn't know about & shall watch out for...
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G'day

11th Armoured liberated my hometown and he has a street named after him over here.

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