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Paget, Bernard Charles Tolver

Date of birth:
September 15th, 1887 (Oxford/Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)
Date of death:
February 16th, 1961 (Petersfield/Hampshire, United Kingdom)
Nationality:
British (1801-present, Kingdom)

Biography

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Period:
First World War (1914-1918)
Rank:
Captain
Unit:
5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 42nd Brigade, 14th (Light) Division, British Army
Awarded on:
November 18th, 1915
"For conspicuous coolness and energy throughout the campaign in France. At Railway Wood, during a bomb attack by the enemy, following on the explosion of a mine, he rendered invaluable service in getting up bombers and bombs and organizing working and wiring parties. His good services as Adjutant have been previously brought to notice."
Military Cross (MC)
Period:
First World War (1914-1918)
Rank:
Captain
Awarded on:
May 26th, 1917
Medaglia d'argento al Valore Militare
Period:
First World War (1914-1918)
Rank:
Captain
Awarded on:
January 1st, 1918
Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Acting Lieutenant General
Unit:
Headquarters, Sickle Force, British Army
Awarded on:
July 11th, 1940
"Maj. Gen. Paget commanded Sickle Force from the 26th April till the evacuation on the night of the 1st/2nd May. He proved himself a Commander of outstanding ability and resource throughout a most difficult operation. In the withdrawal of his force in the face of superior and better equipped enemy, he displayed qualities of Generalship which, combined with magnificent fighting powers of the troops he commanded, enabled our Forces in central Norway to be extricated from a position which in less skilful hands might have proved disastrous."
Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Lieutenant-general
Unit:
Headquarters, South-Eastern Command, British Army
Awarded on:
January 1st, 1942
Commander of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (KCB/DCB)

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
General
Unit:
Headquarters, Middle East Command, British Army
Awarded on:
December 7th, 1944
Order Odrodzenia Polski Wielki
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
General
Unit:
Headquarters, Middle East Command, British Army
Awarded on:
January 1st, 1946
Grand Cross of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (GCB)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
General
Unit:
Headquarters, Middle East Command, British Army
Awarded on:
January 16th, 1947

With palm
Grootofficier in de Leopoldsorde / Grand officier de l'Ordre de Léopold
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
General
Unit:
Headquarters, Middle East Command, British Army
Awarded on:
January 16th, 1947

With palm
Croix de Guerre 1940
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
General
Unit:
Headquarters, Middle East Command, British Army
Awarded on:
July 18th, 1947
"General Sir Bernard C. T. Paget, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., British Army, displayed exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service to the United States Armed Forces in the Middle East, from January 1944 to August 1945. As Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Forces, British Army, General Paget was, through his cooperative spirit and by rendition of every possible assistance to the American forces responsible in a high degree for the successful accomplishment of the United States mission in this theater. The acquisition of land for air bases and the turnover of existing technical installations to our forces in the building and use of airfields in Egypt, Sudan, Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Palestine, Syria, and Arabia were due to his earnest desire to materially aid the United States for allied goodwill and his personal assistance was an object lesson in Anglo-American relationship."
Legion of Merit - Chief Commander (LoM - CC)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
General
Unit:
Headquarters, Middle East Command, British Army
Awarded on:
March 19th, 1948
Sanct Olavs Orden Grand Cross

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