Ronald Bramwell-Davis

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.

Ronald Bramwell-Davis
Colonel Ronald Bramwell Davis in 1945
Born8 October 1905
Scotland
Died12 May 1974 (aged 68)
Andover, Hampshire
Buried
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankMajor-General
Commands heldAldershot District
Battles/warsWorld War II
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order

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

Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Douglas Campbell
GOC Aldershot District
1956–1960
Succeeded by
Sir Denis O'Connor
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