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Biographies, 1st Airborne Division

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Browning, Frederick Arthur
Montague “Boy”
Great Britain

Lieutenant General, Major General, Brigadier, Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel, Major, Captain (Temporary), Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant

Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Commanding Officer, Small Arms School
Commanding Officer, 128th (Hampshire) Infantry Brigade
Commanding Officer, 24th Guards Brigade Group
Commanding Officer, 1st Airborne Division
Major-General, Airborne Forces, Allied Forces Headquarters
Commanding Officer, I Airborne Corps

Born: December 20th, 1896, Kensington, London, Great Britain
Died: March 14th, 1965, Menabilly, Cornwall, Great Britain
Major-General Frederick Arthur Montague 'Boy' Browning
Hopkinson, George Frederick

Major General, Brigadier, Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel, Major, Captain, Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant

4th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment
Signal officer, 72nd Brigade, 36th (Ulster) Division
General Staff Officer (GSO III), War Office
General Staff Officer (GSO II), School of Artillery
Staff of the Military Representative, Supreme War Council
Commanding Officer, 31st Independent Infantry Brigade
Commanding Officer, 1st Airlanding Brigade
Commanding Officer, 1st Airborne Division

Born: December 14th, 1895, Retford, Nottinghamshire, Great Britain
Killed in Action: September 9th, 1943, Castellaneta, Italy
George Frederick Hopkinson
Urquhart, Robert Elliot “Roy”
Great Britain

Major General, Brigadier, Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel, Major, Captain (Temporary), Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant

Staff Officer, 3rd Infantry Division
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
Staff Officer, 51st (Highland) Infantry Division
Commanding Officer, 231st Infantry Brigade
Staff Officer, XII Corps
Commanding Officer, 1st Airborne Division

Born: November 28th, 1901, Shepperton, Middlesex, Great Britain
Died: December 13th, 1988, Menteith, Perthshire, Scotland
Urquhart, Robert Elliot "Roy"