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Alexander Gatehouse
British Army general

Alexander Gatehouse

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British Army general
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Gender
Male
Place of death
Sweden, Sweden
Age
69 years
Education
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Awards
medal bar
 
Military Cross
 
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Biography

Major-General Alexander Hugh Gatehouse DSO & bar MC (20 May 1895 – 21 August 1964) was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 10th Armoured Division during the North African Campaign of World War II.

Military career

He joined the British Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1914 and fought in World War I.

After the war he transferred to the Royal Tank Corps (later the Royal Tank Regiment) in 1931. He was appointed commandant of the Mechanisation Experimental Establishment at Farnborough in 1933.

He served in World War II as deputy commander of the 7th Armoured Brigade in the Western Desert from 1940, as commander of the 4th Armoured Brigade in the Western Desert from 1941 and as General Officer Commanding 10th Armoured Division from June 1942. His permanent rank was advanced to colonel on 6 November 1940, with seniority backdated to 1 July 1940. Having led the 10th Armoured Division at the Battle of Alam el Halfa in September 1942 and then the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942 he became major-general in charge of administration at Washington D. C. at the end of the year, and military attaché in Moscow in 1944 before retiring in 1947.

Family

In 1920 he married Helen Williams; they had one son (Sir Robert Alexander Gatehouse, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court).

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