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unusual facts about Chief of the Imperial General Staff



Cardiff East by-election, 1942

In this role he worked closely and effectively with Sir Alan Brooke the Chief of the Imperial General Staff and in 1942, in an unorthodox move, the Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed Grigg Secretary of State for War as a replacement for David Margesson whom he dismissed after the fall of Singapore to the Japanese.

Charles Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville

In 1918-9, as an ally of the CIGS Henry Wilson, he served on the Supreme War Council and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a Companion of the Order of the Bath by 1921.

RAF Swanton Morley

The site is now occupied by the British Army, and is now known as Robertson Barracks in honour of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, the first Field Marshal to rise from the rank of private and who was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1916 to 1918.


see also

Charles Harington

General Sir Charles Harington Harington (1872–1940), Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1918–1920, and Governor of Gibraltar, 1933–1938

Massingberd

Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd (1871-1947), British field marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff