Brian Wyldbore-Smith
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|name=Sir Brian Wyldbore-Smith
|birth_date=10 July 1913
|birth_place=County Durham
|death_date=6 December 2005 (aged 92)
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|allegiance= United Kingdom
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|rank= Major-General
|branch= British Army
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|commands=44th (Home Counties) Division
|unit=Royal Artillery
|servicenumber=56595
|battles=Second World War
Malayan Emergency
|awards=Knight Bachelor
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order
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Major-General Sir Francis Brian Wyldbore-Smith, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CB|DSO|OBE}} (10 July 1913 – 6 December 2005) was a British Army officer.
Military career
Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1505330/Maj-Gen-Sir-Brian-Wyldbore-Smith.html|title=Major-General Sir Brian Wyldbore-Smith|date=13 December 2005|publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=12 June 2020}} Wyldbore-Smith was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 31 August 1933.{{London Gazette|issue=33974|page=5732|date=1 September 1933}} He saw action as a brigade major at the Second Battle of El Alamein in North Africa in October 1942 and then took part in the crossing of the Garigliano during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. He later took part in the Normandy landings and the advance through North West Europe, commanding 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.Maj-Gen H. Essame, The 43rd Wessex Division at War 1944–45, London: William Clowes, 1952, pp. 217–8; Appendix B.
After the war he became commanding officer of the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, then Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Far East Command and then General Officer Commanding 44th (Home Counties) Division in July 1965 before retiring in 1968.{{cite web|url=https://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf|title=Army Commands|accessdate=7 June 2020}}
In retirement he served as Director of the Conservative Party's Board of Finance from 1970 to 1992.{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/major-general-sir-brian-wyldbore-smith-qwtvrs3sc9m|title=Major General Sir Brian Wyldbore Smith|date=6 December 2005|work=The Times|access-date=12 June 2020}}
Family
In 1944, he married Molly Cayzer, daughter of Lord Rotherwick; they had a son and four daughters.
Works
- {{cite book|last= Wyldbore-Smith|first=Brian|title=March Past: The Memoirs of a Major-General|publisher=Memoir Club|year=2001|isbn=978-1841040394}}
References
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Category:Military personnel from County Durham
Category:British Army major generals
Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath
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Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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