Guy Gregson

Major-General Guy Patrick Gregson CB CBE DSO & Bar MC (8 April 1906 – 10 December 1988) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 1st Division.

Guy Gregson
Born	8 April 1906[1] Cape Town, South Africa[2]
Died	10 December 1988 (aged 82) Sudbury, Suffolk, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1925–1968
Rank	Major-General
Commands held	1st Division
Battles/wars	World War II Korean War
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order & Bar Military Cross

Military career

Educated at Gresham's School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Gregson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1925 and saw active service in the Second World War in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel being mentioned in despatches twice and receiving the MC, the DSO & Bar and the Croix de Guerre.[3] Promoted to Brigadier in 1950, he served in the Korean War and was appointed CBE in 1953.[3] He was made General Officer Commanding 1st Division in 1956 and Regional Director of Civil Defence for the UK's Eastern Region in 1960 before retiring in 1968.[3]

In 1945, he married Oriel Leonie Lucas-Scudamore in Sherman, Connecticut.[4] They divorced and he remarried Iris Slade-Powell.[5]

Honours

• Military Cross, 1942
• Distinguished Service Order, 1943
• Bar to the Distinguished Service Order, 1944
• Croix de Guerre, 1945
• Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1953
• Companion of the Order of the Bath, 1958

References

1. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007
2. 1911 England Census
3. GREGSON, Major-General Guy Patrick in Who Was Who 1897–2006 online, retrieved 22 August 2007
4. Connecticut Marriage Records, 1897–1968
5. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916–2005