Ronald Bramwell-Davis

Ronald Bramwell-Davis

Colonel Ronald Bramwell Davis in 1945
Born 8 October 1905
Scotland
Died 12 May 1974 (aged 68)
Andover, Hampshire
Buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Rank Major-General
Commands held Aldershot District
Battles/wars World War II
Awards Companion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order

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.

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.

References

  1. ↑ Who was who, Volume 7
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 33081. p. 5837. 4 September 1925. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
  3. ↑ Cricket Archive
  4. ↑ Royal Berkshire Regiment
  5. ↑ Aldershot - Atomic Rehearsal for Doctors 1955
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41974. p. 1715. 8 March 1960. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41609. p. 483. 16 January 1959. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Douglas Campbell		 GOC Aldershot District
1956–1960 		Succeeded by
Sir Denis O'Connor
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