Ronald Bramwell-Davis

Major-General Ronald Albert Bramwell-Davis CB DSO (8 October 1905 – 12 May 1974) was a keen cricketer as well as General Officer Commanding Aldershot District.

Ronald Bramwell-Davis
Colonel Ronald Bramwell Davis in 1945.
Born	8 October 1905 Scotland
Died	12 May 1974 (aged 68) Andover, Hampshire
Buried	Aldershot Military Cemetery
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Years of service	1925−1960
Rank	Major-General
Service number	33622
Unit	Highland Light Infantry Royal Highland Fusiliers
Commands	Aldershot District
Battles / wars	World War II
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order

Family

Bramwell-Davis was born in Scotland in 1905, the son of Captain Percy Bramwell-Davis and his wife, Evelyn Mary, the daughter of Albert Richard Tull of Crookham House at Thatcham in Berkshire.^[1]

Military career

The grave of Major-General Ronald Bramwell-Davis.

Bramwell-Davis was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry on 3 September 1925, after graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.^[2] He played for Berkshire County Cricket Club in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship in 1933.^[3] He served in the Second World War and then went on to be Brigadier with responsibility for Infantry matters in Asmara in Eritrea in the late 1940s.^[4] Returning to the United Kingdom, he was appointed Chief of staff at Southern Command.^[5]

Bramwell-Davis became General Officer Commanding (GOC) Aldershot District in 1956 and was appointed CB in 1957. He retired in 1960.^[6]

He was also Colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers.^[7]

Ronald Bramwell-Davis is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery.