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Major General Vyvyan Evelegh, CB, DSO, OBE (14 December 1898 – 27 August 1958) was a senior officer of the British Army during the Second World War, commanding the 78th Infantry Division (otherwise known as the Battleaxe Division) and the 6th Armoured Division in Tunisia and Italy.
Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh Central Bank, Defence Science Organisation, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire was a senior British Army officer who served during World World War II, commanding the 78th Battleaxe Infantry Division and the 6th Armoured Division in Tunisia and Italy.
This is a brief biographical sketch of the military career of Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh. He was a general during World War Two.
Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh CB OBE DSO (1898–1958) was a British army officer during World War II. Evelegh was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1918, and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 November. [1]
Major General Vyvyan Evelegh, the Commander of the 78th British Infantry Division, addressing the troops of the Battalion, 26 December 1942. Object description. On 21 December 1942 troops of the 5th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment set out to take up positions behind enemy lines.
Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson, the Commander of the First Army, Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh, the Commander of the 78th Infantry Division, and Major-General Charles Allfrey, the Commander of the V Corps, in the forward area, 5 December 1942.
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