Jump to content

William Ozanne

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Ozanne
Born15 September 1891
Guernsey, Channel Islands
Died24 March 1966 (aged 74)
Barton Mills, Suffolk, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
Years of service1911−1946
RankMajor-General
Service number28
UnitDuke of Wellington's Regiment
Commands1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment
55th Infantry Brigade
Norfolk County Division
76th Infantry Division
Battles / warsFirst World War
Second World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Military Cross

Major-General William Maingay Ozanne CB, CBE, MC (15 September 1891 − 24 March 1966) was a senior British Army officer.[1]

Military career

[edit]

Educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey,[2] Ozanne later entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment on 4 March 1911. Among his fellow graduates there were F. C. Roberts and P. H. Hansen, both of whom would later win the Victoria Cross (VC), and C. C. Malden, who would, like Ozanne, become a future general.[3][1]

He served on the Western Front during the First World War.[1]

He went on to become commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in 1936 and the served in the Second World War as General Officer Commanding of the Norfolk County Division from December 1940, as General Officer Commanding 76th Infantry Division from November 1941 and then performed "special duties" in the War Office from December 1943...[1] He retired from the army in 1946.[1]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d e Smart 2005, p. 243.
  2. ^ Elizabeth College Register, 1824-1873: With a Record of Some Earlier Students. F. Clarke. 1898.
  3. ^ "No. 28471". The London Gazette. 3 March 1911. p. 1637.

Bibliography

[edit]
  • Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnesley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 1844150496.
[edit]
Military offices
New title GOC 76th Infantry Division
1941−1943
Succeeded by