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Sir Harold Redman, (25 August 1899 – 1986) was a senior

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officer and

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Military career

Redman was commissioned into the

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28 February 1917.Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
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in France and Belgium during 1918 and later Germany.Half Yearly Army List January 1946 He served in India and was the aide-de-camp to the general officer commanding Waziristan Force from 20 November 1923 to 19 October 1924, for which he was

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(London Gazette 13 March 1925). He transferred to the

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in February 1929, while attending the

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from 1929 to 1930, alongside fellow students such as

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, Ivor Hughes, Harold Freeman-Attwood,

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. He became an instructor at the Senior Officers' School at

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in October 1937 and then moved on to be an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley from 15 November 1938 to 13 August 1939. He served on the staff at the War Office from 14 August 1939 to 2 July 1940. He served in the

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, being appointed

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of 7th Battalion

in July 1940. Then in February 1941 he became

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151st Infantry Brigade until 12 December 1941 which took him to North Africa,

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and the Middle East. He was made a

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on the

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of the

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in North Africa from 13 December 1941 to 27 March 1942. On 30 March 1942 he became commander of

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until 1 March 1943, after which he went on to be British secretary to

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in Washington D.C. He was appointed deputy commander for the French Forces of the Interior in 1944 and deputy head of Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force Mission to France later that year. After the war he initially became head of the British Military Mission to France and then in 1946 he became

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to Allied Land Forces South East Asia. He was made director of military operations at the

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in 1948 and principal staff officer to the

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in 1951. He was made Vice-Chief Imperial General Staff in 1952 and Governor and Commander-In-Chief of Gibraltar in 1955. He retired in 1958. In retirement he became the first director and secretary of the

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in 1958.''The Wolfson Foundation 1955–2005 – A Historical Perspective'', Page 4

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