Ronald Bramwell-Davis Explained

Ronald Bramwell-Davis
Birth Date:8 October 1905
Death Date:12 May 1974 (aged 68)
Placeofburial:Aldershot Military Cemetery
Birth Place:Scotland
Death Place:Andover, Hampshire
Allegiance: United Kingdom
Serviceyears:1925−1960
Servicenumber:33622
Rank:Major-General
Unit:Highland Light Infantry
Royal Highland Fusiliers
Commands:Aldershot District
Battles:World War II
Awards:Companion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order

Major-General Ronald Albert Bramwell-Davis CB DSO (8 October 1905 – 12 May 1974) was a keen cricketer as well as General Officer Commanding Aldershot District.

Family

Bramwell-Davis was born in Scotland in 1905, the son of Captain Percy Bramwell-Davis and his wife, Evelyn Mary, the daughter of Albert Richard Tull of Crookham House at Thatcham in Berkshire.[1]

Military career

Bramwell-Davis was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry on 3 September 1925, after graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He played for Berkshire County Cricket Club in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship in 1933.[2] He served in the Second World War and then went on to be Brigadier with responsibility for Infantry matters in Asmara in Eritrea in the late 1940s.[3] Returning to the United Kingdom, he was appointed Chief of staff at Southern Command.[4]

Bramwell-Davis became General Officer Commanding (GOC) Aldershot District in 1956 and was appointed CB in 1957. He retired in 1960.

He was also Colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers.

Ronald Bramwell-Davis is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery.

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=HT4OAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Ronald+Albert%22+%22Bramwell+Davis%22 Who was who, Volume 7
  2. http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/190/190552/190552.html Cricket Archive
  3. http://history.farmersboys.com/Battle_Honours/eritrea.htm Royal Berkshire Regiment
  4. http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=39184 Aldershot – Atomic Rehearsal for Doctors 1955