Philip Christison Military person

General Sir (Alexander Frank) Philip Christison, 4th Baronet GBE CB DSO MC (17 November 1893 – 21 December 1993) was a British military commander of the Second World War.

Personal facts

Birth dateNovember 17, 1893
Birth place
Edinburgh , Scotland
Date of deathDecember 21, 1993
Place of death
Scotland , Melrose Scottish Borders , Roxburghshire

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Military person

award
Order of the Bath
Mentioned in dispatches
Military Cross
Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order
military operations
Battle of Loos
Burma Campaign
Battle of Arras (1914)
Battle of the Somme
Indonesian National Revolution
military command
Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle 1947
15th (Scottish) Division (1941)
Allied Forces Dutch East Indies (1946)
Command and Staff College Quetta (1940)
Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (1945)
Fourteenth Army (1945 temporary)
Northern Command (1946)
Quetta Brigade India (1938)
XV Indian Corps (1943)
XXXIII Indian Corps (1942)
2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment (1937)
military unit
Duke of Wellington's Regiment
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
service start1914
service end1949

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External resources

  1. http://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_C01.html