Robert Francis Brydges Naylor

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Robert Francis Brydges Naylor
Captain R. F. B. Naylor served with a signalling company during the Great War
Born(1889-10-06)6 October 1889
Died23 December 1971(1971-12-23) (aged 82)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
Years of service1909–1946
RankMajor-General
Service number19402
UnitSouth Staffordshire Regiment
Royal Corps of Signals
Battles/warsWorld War I:

World War II:

  • North-West Europe Campaign of 1944–45
Awards
Mentioned in Despatches (7)
Legion of Honour
(France)

North-West Europe Campaign of 1944–45
.

Biography

Robert Francis (Frank) Brydges Naylor was born on 6 October 1889,

Royal Engineers Signal Service on 1 October 1912.[1]

During the

GHQ.[10] He was admitted to the Distinguished Service Order in the 1919 Birthday Honours.[11]

After the war ended, Naylor relinquished his rank of lieutenant colonel on 29 March 1919, and reverted to his substantive rank of captain.[12] When the Royal Corps of Signals was formed in 1920, he transferred to the new corps with the rank of captain, backdated to 26 May 1915.[13] He attended the Staff College, Camberley, in 1921-22, and was brigade major of the Signals Training Centre from 1923 to 1925.[3] He was promoted to the substantive rank of major on 20 November 1924.[14] He then served in Malta from 1925 to 1927.[3] On 20 October 1927, he married Lady Mary Millicent Rachel Byng, the daughter of Edmund Byng, 6th Earl of Strafford. They had two sons and a daughter.[2]

Naylor served with the

3rd Division Signals Company at Bulford, Wiltshire from 1931 to 1935.[3] He was promoted to colonel on 15 February 1935. He was chief staff officer at Scottish Command in 1936 and 1937, and brigadier in charge of administration at Western Command from 1938 to 1939.[3]

During the

Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1942 Birthday Honours in June 1942.[15]

Naylor became GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division and the Northumbrian District in 1945 and served until he retired from the Army in 1946.[16] He remained colonel of the Royal Signals until 1953.[3] He died on 23 December 1971.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Half-Yearly Army List. British Army. 31 December 1938. p. 128. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Maj.-Gen. Robert Francis Brydges Naylor". The Peerage. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Smart 2005, p. 231.
  4. ^ "No. 28289". The London Gazette. 17 September 1909. p. 6962.
  5. ^ "South Staffordshire Regiment in Gibraltar, 1911-1913". Morgan Web Site. 2 June 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  6. ^ "No. 29438". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 11 January 1916. p. 580.
  7. ^ "No. 30157". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 29 June 1917. p. 6490.
  8. ^ "No. 30398". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 23 November 1917. p. 12303.
  9. ^ "No. 30450". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 28 December 1917. p. 13.
  10. ^ "No. 30762". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 21 June 1918. p. 7437.
  11. ^ "No. 13453". The Edinburgh Gazette. 5 June 1919. p. 1853.
  12. ^ "No. 31434". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 4 July 1919. p. 8477.
  13. ^ "No. 32136". The London Gazette. 23 November 1920. p. 11574.
  14. ^ "No. 32995". The London Gazette. 21 November 1924. p. 8424.
  15. ^ "No. 35586". The London Gazette. 5 June 1942. p. 2477.
  16. ^ "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 1 June 2020.

Bibliography

  • Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnsley, Yorkshire: Pen and Sword.
    OCLC 58555546
    .

External links
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Preceded by GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division
1945–1946 		Succeeded by
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