Leslie Gordon Phillips

Major General Sir Leslie Gordon Phillips KBE CB MC (1892–1966) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War.

Sir Leslie Gordon Phillips
Born11 February 1892
Died19 March 1966
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1911-1946
RankMajor General
UnitWorcestershire Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals
Battles/warsFirst World War, Second World War
AwardsKBE, CB, MC

Biography

Born on 11 February 1892, Leslie Gordon Phillips was educated at Bedford School and at Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received his first commission in the Worcestershire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant in 1911 and served in France and Belgium during the First World War. He joined the Royal Corps of Signals in 1920 and served in Waziristan between 1936 and 1937. Promoted to the rank of Major General in 1940, he served during the Second World War and was Signal Officer in Chief, Home Forces, between 1941 and 1943. He was Director of Signals at the War Office between 1943 and 1946.[1]

Major General Sir Leslie Gordon Phillips was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1943, and as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1946. He retired from the British Army in 1946 and died on 19 March 1966.[2]

gollark: And yet they still have to do chunks?
gollark: See, using SQLite has a bunch of advantages:- faster than filesystems on smaller blobby data- relational and not just effectively a mapping of path to blobs (or textual data as git dislikes blobs)- eventually can swap in SQLCipher and encrypt everything
gollark: ... sure?
gollark: It is not a database.
gollark: > datetimeObviously I already stored that.> can revisions branch like in git?Nope.> tbh why not directly use git?- can't really store/manage structured metadata well- probably annoying to interface with- would require filesystem storage instead of my neat SQLite database thing- apioforms- merge conflicts- likely to end up as a somewhat leaky abstraction

References
  1. Who's Who
  2. R.F.H. Nalder, The Royal Corps of Signals: a history of its antecedents and development (circa 1800-1955), London, 1958
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