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
Years of service1925−1960
RankMajor-General
Service number33622
UnitHighland Light Infantry
Royal Highland Fusiliers
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 Major-General Ronald Bramwell-Davis.

Bramwell-Davis was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry on 3 September 1925, after graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[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 (GOC) 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.

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.
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