Major General Patrick Holberton Man CB

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DSO MC (17 March 1913 – 10 October 1979) was

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Aldershot District.

Military career

Man was commissioned into the Hampshire Regiment (later the

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) in 1933.Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
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initially as a Staff Captain with 22nd Infantry Brigade and then as a

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with 4th Infantry Division, with the

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and then with the

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. In 1943 he was appointed Assistant Quartermaster General at the Headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander for

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moving on to be Director of Administration Planning there in 1944. After the War he became Assistant Adjutant General at the

before becoming a General Staff Officer at the

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in 1952. He served in

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during the

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from 1954 and then became Director of Administration Planning at the War Office in 1956. In 1958 he moved to the War Office and in 1959 he went to the

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. He was made

Aldershot District in 1963 and Director of Personal Services (Army) at the

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in 1966; he retired in 1968. He was also

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of the

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from 1967 to 1972. In retirement he wrote ''The Great Rebellion of Queen Boudicca'', a historical novel about Queen

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.The Great Rebellion of Queen Boudicca by Patrick Man
Athena Books, 2009, He lived at

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where he died in 1979.

References

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Generals of World War II
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