Guy Riley
Major General Sir Henry Guy Riley KBE CB (1884–1964) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War.
Sir Guy Riley | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 November 1884 |
| Died | 24 October 1964 |
| Allegiance |  |
| Service/ |  |
| Years of service | 1906–1943 |
| Rank | Major General |
| Unit | North Staffordshire Regiment |
| Battles/wars | First World War, Second World War |
| Awards | KBE, CB |
Biography
Born on 5 November 1884, Guy Riley was educated at Bedford School. He joined the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1906, served during the First World War, and was mentioned in dispatches twice. He was Paymaster-in-Chief at the War Office between 1937 and 1943.[1]
Major General Sir Guy Riley was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1938, and as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1944.[2] He retired from the British Army in 1943 and died on 24 October 1964.
gollark: Actually, #2 would be hard, so "memory safety enforced via disabling pointers unless you pass a pointer aptitude test".
gollark: gollarC features:- osmarkslibc\™️ built in- memory safety enforced via disabling pointers unless you ~~provide mathematical proof that your use of them is always valid in every way~~ pass pointer aptitude tests (plus ones for pointer arithmetic etc.)- completely broken backward compatibility wrt. `switch`- lambdas for some reason- length-terminated strings- `quaternion.h`- fearless concurrency via an optional setting to deny all inter-thread shared memory access- macro for automatically generating yet another linked list implementation for some reason
gollark: * gollarC
gollark: This could either be a fun esolang opportunity or a time travel opportunity.
gollark: YET.
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