Douglas Brownrigg

Lieutenant-General Sir Wellesley Douglas Studholme Brownrigg, (21 April 1886 – 7 February 1946) was a senior British Army officer who served as Military Secretary from 1938 to 1939.

Military career Brownrigg was educated at Mulgrave Castle and later entered and then graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the 1st Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters in 1905. He became adjutant of his regiment in 1910. He was promoted to brevet major, "for Distinguished Service in the Field", in February 1916 although this was later antedated back to January. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order later that year. He ended the war in 1918 as a lieutenant colonel, and had also been mentioned in dispatches six times.

After the war Brownrigg became deputy assistant adjutant general at the War Office and, after attending the Staff College, Camberley, from 1920 to 1921, then became an instructor at the Royal Military College Sandhurst. became assistant adjutant and quartermaster general for the Shanghai Defence Force in China in 1927. He was appointed commander of the 159th (Welsh Border) Infantry Brigade in 1933 and, after being granted the rank of major general on 16 July 1934, became general officer commanding (GOC) of the 51st (Highland) Division in 1935. and Military Secretary later in the year and director general of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1939. and was involuntarily retired in 1940.

Brownrigg was a sector and zone commander for the Home Guard for the rest of the war.

Personal life In 1919 Brownrigg married Mona Jeffreys. Sir Douglas and Lady Brownrigg were keen dog breeders who imported two of the first Shih Tzus into the United Kingdom from China. His memoirs; Unexpected (a book of memories), were published in 1942.