Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley (15 August 1896 - 26 August 1983), CB, DSO, MC was commander of the 51st (Highland) Division at the Second Battle of El Alamein in World War II and lead it across North Africa to Sicily.

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  • Tartan Tam
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  • Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley (15 August 1896 - 26 August 1983), CB, DSO, MC was commander of the 51st (Highland) Division at the Second Battle of El Alamein in World War II and lead it across North Africa to Sicily. A career soldier, he became an officer during the First World War on the Western Front, serving as a staff and line Officer in many parts of the British Empire in the interwar years, before rising to the command of the unit which would make his name in the Middle East. After the war he served as the Principal of University College, Dundee before retiring and writing his memoirs. (en)
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  • Wimberley as Principal of University College, Dundee (en)
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  • Douglas Neil Wimberley (en)
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  • Tartan Tam (en)
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  • 1915 - 1946 (en)
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  • – (en)
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  • Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley (15 August 1896 - 26 August 1983), CB, DSO, MC was commander of the 51st (Highland) Division at the Second Battle of El Alamein in World War II and lead it across North Africa to Sicily. (en)
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  • Douglas Wimberley (en)
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