Ronald Bramwell-Davis

Major-General Ronald Albert Bramwell-Davis CB DSO (8 October 1905 – 12 May 1974) was a keen cricketer as well as General Officer Commanding Aldershot District.

Ronald Bramwell-Davis
Colonel Ronald Bramwell Davis in 1945
Born8 October 1905
Scotland
Died12 May 1974 (aged 68)
Andover, Hampshire
Buried
Aldershot Military Cemetery
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankMajor-General
Commands heldAldershot District
Battles/warsWorld War II
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order

Family

Bramwell-Davis was born in Scotland in 1905, the son of Captain Percy Bramwell-Davis and his wife, Evelyn Mary, the daughter of Albert Richard Tull of Crookham House at Thatcham in Berkshire.[1]

Military career
The grave of Ronald Bramwell-Davis

Bramwell-Davis was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry in 1925.[2] He played for Berkshire County Cricket Club in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship in 1933.[3] He served in the Second World War and then went on to be Brigadier with responsibility for Infantry matters in Asmara in Eritrea in the late 1940s.[4] Returning to the United Kingdom, he was appointed Chief of Staff at Southern Command.[5]

Bramwell-Davis became General Officer Commanding Aldershot District in 1956 and was appointed CB in 1957. He retired in 1960.[6]

He was also Colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers.[7]

Ronald Bramwell-Davis is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery.

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References
  1. Who was who, Volume 7
  2. "No. 33081". The London Gazette. 4 September 1925. p. 5837.
  3. Cricket Archive
  4. Royal Berkshire Regiment
  5. Aldershot - Atomic Rehearsal for Doctors 1955
  6. "No. 41974". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 March 1960. p. 1715.
  7. "No. 41609". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 January 1959. p. 483.
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Douglas Campbell		 GOC Aldershot District
1956–1960		 Succeeded by
Sir Denis O'Connor
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