Cameron Nicholson

General Sir Cameron Gordon Graham Nicholson, (30 June 1898 – 7 July 1979) was a British Army officer who served as Adjutant-General to the Forces. He later served as Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.

Military career After being educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Cameron Nicholson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in July 1915. He served in the First World War and was awarded Military Cross and Bar in 1918.

Nicholson served with the Royal Horse Artillery in France, India, Iraq, Palestine and Egypt from 1917 to 1927. attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1931 to 1932, and then worked as an instructor at the Staff College from 1938 to 1939.

Captain Tomeichi Okazaki surrenders his sword to Major-General Cameron Nicholson in an official ceremony at Johor Bahru, Malaya, 1945.

He served in the Second World War and was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order with Bar in 1940.

In 1944 he became General Officer Commanding 44th Indian Armoured Division, a post he held until 1944.

Post-war In 1946 he became Director of Artillery at the War Office and then in 1948 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of West Africa Command. at which time units were engaged in the Mau Mau Uprising. He became Adjutant General later in 1953 and retired from the British Army in 1956. to 1961.