Major-General Sir Francis Brian Wyldbore-Smith, (10 July 1913 – 6 December 2005) was a British Army officer.

Military career

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Sig ...

, Wyldbore-Smith was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 31 August 1933. He saw action as a brigade major at the Second Battle of El Alamein in North Africa in October 1942 and then took part in the crossing of the Garigliano during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. He later took part in the Normandy landings and the advance through North West Europe, commanding

179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery The 179th Field Regiment was a unit of the Royal Artillery, formed by the British Army during World War II. First raised in 1940 as infantry of the Worcestershire Regiment, after serving in the garrison of Iceland it was converted to the field ar ...

. After the war he became commanding officer of the

15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars The 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed by the amalgamation of the 15th The King's Hussars and the 19th Royal Hussars in 1922 and, after service in the Second World War, it was ama ...

Malaya Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia: Political entities * British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits ...

during the

Malayan Emergency The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti–British National Liberation War was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya between communist pro-independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces o ...

, then Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Far East Command and then General Officer Commanding

44th (Home Counties) Division The Home Counties Division was an infantry division of the Territorial Force, part of the British Army, that was raised in 1908. As the name suggests, the division recruited in the Home Counties, particularly Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. ...

in July 1965 before retiring in 1968. In retirement he served as Director of the Conservative Party's Board of Finance from 1970 to 1992.

Family

In 1944, he married Molly Cayzer, daughter of

Lord Rotherwick Baron Rotherwick, of Tylney in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. History The title was created on 8 June 1939 for the shipping magnate and Conservative Member of Parliament, Sir Herbert Cayzer, 1st B ...

; they had a son and four daughters.

Works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wyldbore-Smith, Brian 1913 births 2005 deaths Military personnel from County Durham British Army major generals Knights Bachelor Companions of the Order of the Bath Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Officers of the Order of the British Empire Royal Artillery officers People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire British Army personnel of World War II British Army personnel of the Malayan Emergency