About Desmond Gordon
Lived 1911 – 1997 (aged 85). Desmond Gordon was a British military personnel.
Major-General Desmond Spencer Gordon CB CBE DSO JP DL (25 December 1911 – 4 November 1997) was a British Army officer who commanded 4th Division.
Military career Educated at Haileybury and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Gordon was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Green Howards on 28 January 1932.
He served in the Second World War as Commanding Officer of 1/7th Queen's Regiment from 1943 and then as Commander of the 151st (Durham) Infantry Brigade from 1944 and as Commander of 146th Infantry Brigade from later that year in North West Europe.
After the War he was made Commander of 131st Lorried Infantry Brigade.
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Who was Desmond Gordon?
British Army general (1911-1997)
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Desmond Gordon was born on 25 December 1911.
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Desmond Gordon died on 4 November 1997.
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