Ronald Penney
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Major-General Sir William Ronald Campbell Penney, was a British Army officer who fought in both the First and the Second World Wars. His most notable role occurred during the latter, when he was Gener
Major-General W. R. C. Penney, GOC 1st Division, takes the salute during a march-past of the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment, 23 June 1944. A Humber Mk IV armoured car passes the saluting base.
Eric Dorman-Smith
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Brigadier Eric Edward "Chink" Dorman-Smith, MC, who later changed his name to Eric Edward Dorman O'Gowan, was an Irish officer whose career in the British Army began in the First World War and closed
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…and attended the Staff College, Camberley, graduating there in late 1928. Among his many fellow students at Camberley were John Whiteley, Clement West, Eric Dorman-Smith, Angus Collier, Reginald Savory, Philip Christison, Oliver Leese, Evelyn Barker, John Hawkesworth, Alec Bishop, Eric Nares, Eric Hayes, Charles Norman…
Eric Dorman-Smith (left) talking with General Sir Alan Brooke at El Alamein, Egypt, August 1942.