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1 Airborne Division
Criteria [1] Branch [2] Directorate [3] Role [4]

Command Appointments - Main - General Officer Commanding

From To Rank Name Acting
04-Nov-1941 06-May-1943 Major-General Sir Frederick Browning
06-May-1943 11-Sep-1943 Major-General GF Hopkinson Died of wounds 12 September 1943.
11-Sep-1943 10-Dec-1943 Major-General EE Down
10-Dec-1943 21-May-1945 Major-General RE Urquhart
27-Jan-1944 ? 05-Jun-1945 ? Brigadier RG Loder-Symonds
24-Aug-1945 31-Aug-1945 Major-General RE Urquhart
24-Aug-1945 31-Aug-1945 Lieutenant-Colonel WFK Thompson
Number of Records Returned: 7
Number of Pages Returned : 1

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