1. George Giffard was thus a nephew of the Socialist politician Susan Lawrence.
16 Facts About George Giffard
2.
George Giffard transferred into a unit of the King's African Rifles.
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George Giffard rose to command a column of two battalions of the KAR, "Gifcol".
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Highly respected and lauded by his own soldiers, an Australian scout under his command commented that George Giffard was "an efficient and tireless soldier, [who] expected his officers and men to be the same".
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George Giffard was wounded, was awarded the DSO, and was mentioned in despatches four times.
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George Giffard returned to West Africa in 1936, when he was appointed Inspector-General of the West African Frontier Force.
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George Giffard was appointed Inspector-General of African Colonial Forces in 1938.
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George Giffard began the Second World War as Military Secretary at the War Office, and then, from 1940, was General Officer Commanding British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
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George Giffard was made General Officer Commanding, Eastern Army, in India, in May 1943.
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George Giffard was temperamentally the opposite of the publicity-hungry Commander in Chief, Admiral Louis Mountbatten, and the two men often clashed.
11.
Stilwell, as commander of the Northern Combat Area Command, refused to take George Giffard's orders, claiming that he could not submit American forces to British control, and as Deputy Supreme Commander to Mountbatten he was in any case George Giffard's superior.
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George Giffard was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1944 New Year Honours.
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Mountbatten's Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General Henry Pownall, wrote that George Giffard had shown no initiative at all.
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In 1945, George Giffard was made Colonel of the Queen's Royal Regiment.
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George Giffard was Colonel Commandant of the Royal West African Frontier Force and of the King's African Rifles.
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George Giffard was Aide-de-Camp General to the King from 1943 to 1946.