About: Charles Leslie Richardson

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

General Sir Charles Leslie Richardson, GCB, CBE, DSO (11 August 1908 – 7 February 1994) was a senior British Army officer who saw service in the Second World War and reached high office in the 1950s. A 1928 graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Richardson was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. He served in British India between 1931 and 1938. During the Second World War he graduated from the Staff College, Camberley, and served on the staff of the 4th Infantry Division in the Battle of France. He then went to the Middle East, where he was an instructor in logistics at the Staff College, Haifa, and a staff officer with the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He became the staff officer for plans the headquarters of the Eighth Army in June 1942 and was responsible for plannin

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • General Sir Charles Leslie Richardson, GCB, CBE, DSO (11 August 1908 – 7 February 1994) was a senior British Army officer who saw service in the Second World War and reached high office in the 1950s. A 1928 graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Richardson was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. He served in British India between 1931 and 1938. During the Second World War he graduated from the Staff College, Camberley, and served on the staff of the 4th Infantry Division in the Battle of France. He then went to the Middle East, where he was an instructor in logistics at the Staff College, Haifa, and a staff officer with the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He became the staff officer for plans the headquarters of the Eighth Army in June 1942 and was responsible for planning the deception operation codenamed Operation Bertram. Promoted to the acting rank of brigadier, he served on the staff of the Eighth Army in the Tunisian campaign and the Allied invasion of Sicily, on that of the US Fifth Army in the Italian campaign, and with that of the 21st Army Group in the campaign in North West Europe in 1944–1945. After the war Richardson was with the British Control Commission in Berlin from 1945 to 1946 and the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) from 1947 to 1948. He was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham in 1955 and the General Officer Commanding of the Singapore District in 1958. He went on to become the first Director of Combat Development at the War Office in 1960 and Director General of Military Training in 1961. In this latter role he was credited with recognising the significance of the Special Air Service. In 1963 he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Northern Command and in 1965 the Quartermaster-General to the Forces. His final appointment was as Master-General of the Ordnance in 1966 before he retired in 1971. He was Chief Royal Engineer from 1972 to 1977. (en)
  • Sir Charles Leslie Richardson, GCB, CBE, DSO (* 11. August 1908; † 7. Februar 1994 in , Surrey, England) war ein britischer Offizier der British Army, der zuletzt als General von 1965 bis 1966 Generalquartiermeister des Heeres (Quartermaster-General to the Forces) sowie zwischen 1966 und 1971 Master-General of the Ordnance war. Im Anschluss bekleidete er von 1972 bis 1977 das Ehrenamt des Königlichen Chefingenieurs (Chief Royal Engineer) und war als solcher Leiter des Corps of Royal Engineers. (de)
  • Charles Leslie Richardson (11 agosto 1908 – 7 febbraio 1994) è stato un generale britannico del British Army. (it)
dbo:allegiance
  • United Kingdom
dbo:award
dbo:battle
dbo:militaryBranch
dbo:militaryCommand
  • Northern Command
  • Royal Military College of Science
  • 61st Infantry Brigade
  • Singapore District
dbo:militaryUnit
dbo:serviceEndYear
  • 1971-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:serviceNumber
  • 40407
dbo:serviceStartYear
  • 1928-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 24828099 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 30481 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1114481720 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:allegiance
  • United Kingdom (en)
dbp:awards
dbp:battles
  • *Second World War **Battle of France **Western Desert campaign **Tunisian campaign **Allied invasion of Sicily **Allied invasion of Italy **Operation Overlord **Western Allied invasion of Germany (en)
dbp:birthDate
  • 1908-08-11 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
dbp:branch
dbp:caption
  • Lieutenant General Charles Richardson in 1962 (en)
dbp:commands
dbp:deathDate
  • 1994-02-07 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
  • Redhill, Surrey, England (en)
dbp:name
  • Sir Charles Leslie Richardson (en)
dbp:rank
dbp:servicenumber
  • 40407 (xsd:integer)
dbp:serviceyears
  • 1928 (xsd:integer)
dbp:title
dbp:unit
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:years
  • 1955 (xsd:integer)
  • 1963 (xsd:integer)
  • 1965 (xsd:integer)
  • 1966 (xsd:integer)
  • 1972 (xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Sir Charles Leslie Richardson, GCB, CBE, DSO (* 11. August 1908; † 7. Februar 1994 in , Surrey, England) war ein britischer Offizier der British Army, der zuletzt als General von 1965 bis 1966 Generalquartiermeister des Heeres (Quartermaster-General to the Forces) sowie zwischen 1966 und 1971 Master-General of the Ordnance war. Im Anschluss bekleidete er von 1972 bis 1977 das Ehrenamt des Königlichen Chefingenieurs (Chief Royal Engineer) und war als solcher Leiter des Corps of Royal Engineers. (de)
  • Charles Leslie Richardson (11 agosto 1908 – 7 febbraio 1994) è stato un generale britannico del British Army. (it)
  • General Sir Charles Leslie Richardson, GCB, CBE, DSO (11 August 1908 – 7 February 1994) was a senior British Army officer who saw service in the Second World War and reached high office in the 1950s. A 1928 graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Richardson was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. He served in British India between 1931 and 1938. During the Second World War he graduated from the Staff College, Camberley, and served on the staff of the 4th Infantry Division in the Battle of France. He then went to the Middle East, where he was an instructor in logistics at the Staff College, Haifa, and a staff officer with the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He became the staff officer for plans the headquarters of the Eighth Army in June 1942 and was responsible for plannin (en)
rdfs:label
  • Charles Leslie Richardson (de)
  • Charles Leslie Richardson (en)
  • Charles Richardson (it)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Sir Charles Leslie Richardson (en)
is dbo:notableCommander of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:notableCommanders of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License