Name that general! (with written questions too)

Hit submit before I wanted to - perhaps a moderator could delete?

Darn doorbell!

 

You got it, Mike.

Andrew George Latta McNaughton was born in Moosomin, Saskatchewan. According to the Juno Centre site:

Andrew McNaughton graduated in physics and engineering from McGill University in Montreal (B.S., 1910, M.S., 1912). He enlists in the Militia in 1909, then in 1914, in the 4th Battery of the Canadian Expeditionary Corps. Applying his scientific knowledge to artillery, he is rapidly promoted and when the war ends, he is at the head of the Canadian Artillery Corps.

After the Great War, he remains with the Canadian Permanent Forces as Chief of the General Staff. He works at mechanizing the armed forces and modernizing the Militia. He returns for a few years to civilian life and from 1935 to 1939 is head of the National Research Council of Canada.

When war breaks out, McNaughton becomes commanding officer of the First Canadian Infantry Division. Under his leadership, the Division grows and is reorganized as a corps (1940), and then as an army (1942). McNaughton’s contribution to the development of new techniques is outstanding, especially in the field of detection and weaponry, including the discarding sabot projectile. He is however criticized for his poor judgment regarding military strategy especially his approval of the ill-fated operation against Dieppe. His obstinate opposition to the fragmentation of Canadian troops stationed in Great Britain antagonized both the British senior Staff and the Canadian government. Pressured by critics and weakened by health problems, McNaughton resigned his command in December 1943.

Prime Minister King’s trust towards McNaughton remains unabated and he is appointed Minister of Defence in 1944, with the specific mandate to solve the conscription issue. He will prove unable to find a solution, and Canadians deny him the support he needs to be elected to the House of Commons.
After WWII, Andrew McNaughton is Canada’s Representative to the United Nations’ Atomic Energy Commission; he chairs the Canadian Atomic Energy Control Commission from 1946 to 1948. He acts as Permanent Representative to the UN from 1948 to 1949, then between 1950 and 1959, he is the President of the Canadian section of the International Joint Commission

Personally, I think he got shafted in many ways and never got the credit for what he did right.

also,
Andrew McNaughton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Your go Mike!

 

Sticking with guys who also fought in WWI
What was his WWII command?

 

Hint please.

I know I've seen this picture before. I feel I should have the answer, but I've not come up with the correct sequence to search. He's in British uniform (which the Canadians also wore), and in the shot anyhow, the cap badge would indicate land forces....that's as far as I'm getting

 

Not sure on this one, but I'm going to go with

General Sir Richard Nelson Gale, GCB, KBE, DSO, MC - Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, who was also the onetime commander of the British 6th Airborne Division.






just a shot in the dark....


-whatever

-Lou

 

Nope, sorry Lou,


Hint: In 1916 he earned a Victoria Cross for courage on the Somme

 

Be careful, He fought for Britian in WWI which is I believe the uniform in the Pic, but for served another country in WWII

 

Gen. Baron Bernard Cyril Freyberg,V.C.

commander of New Zealand forces in Italy.

-whatever

-Lou

 

yep, you got it.

Lou got it first, so yer up next

 

Okay... here's the pic:



what unit did he command, and what is his most famous operation?

-whatever

-Lou

 

Well, good grief! It IS at Photobucket.....

.... you can't link photobucket pics to the forum?????

I didn't know that!!! It shows up fine on my monitor at work....


.....hmmmmm.... then, what is the recomended photo-hosting site for posting pics on the forum?

Sorry bout that .... needless to say, this really surprises me.

-Lou

EDIT: I've aded the image as an attachment - let me know if that works!

 

just for the record, your siggy-pic must be blocked, too.... all I see is a big, red 'X'!

-whatever

-Lou

 

Here's another picture.



EDIT: He's a Colonel in this picture - General in the first one.

-whatever

-Lou

 

HINT: I would bet that most forum members have seen him depicted on film.


Another pic:




-whatever

-Lou

 

Randome guess-Montbatten?

 

Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski

Stanisław Sosabowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

And before any Rogues attack the post prior to mine - he started this interesting thread, and it is a very educational one for many of us.