10 Facts About Joseph Baillon

Joseph Baillon was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and at St Bede's College.

Joseph Baillon married, in 1925, Gertrude Emily Fellowes Prynne of Plymouth; the couple had two sons and one daughter.

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Baillon volunteered for service with the British Army and was commissioned as an officer into the South Staffordshire Regiment on 30 January 1915.

Joseph Baillon earned his Military Cross during the advance to Abancourt in 1918.

Joseph Baillon remained with the South Staffordshires during the interwar period until 1931, as adjutant or as a staff captain.

In World War II, from September 1942 until November 1943 as an Acting Major-General, Joseph Baillon was Chief of staff for Persia and Iraq Command in 1942, under General Henry Maitland Wilson, its new head.

Joseph Baillon was Chief of the General Staff for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in 1943.

Joseph Baillon was made Director of Organisation at the War Office in 1945 and then General Officer Commanding Aldershot District in 1946.

Joseph Baillon retired from the Army on 30 March 1949 as a Major-General.

From 1949, Joseph Baillon was a Director of the Irish brewers, Beamish and Crawford Ltd, of Cork.