Major-General Michael Denman Gambier-Parry, MC, DL (21 August 1891 – 30 April 1976) was a senior British Army officer who briefly commanded the 2nd Armoured...
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Sidney Gambier-Parry (9 January 1859 – 17 November 1948) was a British architect. A native of Highnam, Gloucestershire, he came from a prominent family...
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Brigadier Sir Richard Gambier-Parry, KCMG (20 January 1894 – 19 June 1965) was a British military officer who served in both the army and the air force...
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composer so honoured. Hubert Parry was born in Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, the youngest of the six children of Thomas Gambier Parry (1816–1888) and his first...
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Courtauld Gallery (section Gambier-Parry Collection)
Mark Gambier-Parry, son of Major Ernest Gambier-Parry, bequeathed the diverse collection of art formed by his grandfather, Thomas Gambier Parry, which...
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9th Division and the British 2nd Armoured Division (Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry), minus a brigade group sent to Greece, were left to garrison Cyrenaica...
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Leonarde Chase. 1952 – "The Uncommon Prayer Book" was dramatised by Michael Gambier-Parry for the regional BBC Home Service West. Broadcast on 24 April, the...
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Anglo-Greek War Council ca. January 1941. Left to right: Major General Michael Gambier-Parry, Dictator Ioannis Metaxas, King George II of Greece, Air Vice Marshal...
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commander had died suddenly and been replaced by Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry. The Siege of Giarabub (now Jaghbub), took place in the aftermath...
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Command) Lieutenant-General Philip Neame, O'Connor and Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry, commander of the 2nd Armoured Division were captured. The Western...
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Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (category Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George)
The new GOC of the 2nd British Armoured Division, Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry was likewise new to desert warfare. Rommel soon learned from reconnaissance...
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an air crash. He was replaced by Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry on 12 February 1941. Gambier-Parry had served in the infantry during the First World...
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Massue, Earl of Galway Brigadier W. C. V. Galwey Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry Major-General Dominic Jacotin Gamble Lieutenant-General Sir James...
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(left), Lieutenant-General Philip Neame (centre) and Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry (right), after their capture in North Africa pictured in front of...
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Balfour Hutchison, Colville Wemyss, Rowley Hill, Kenneth Loch, Michael Gambier-Parry, Alastair MacDougall, Arthur Wakely, Edmond Schreiber, Robert Pargiter...
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Admiral of the Fleet James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, GCB (13 October 1756 – 19 April 1833) was a Royal Navy officer. After seeing action at the capture...
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Edward Joseph Todhunter, Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd, Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry, Second Lieutenant, Lord (Dan) Ranfurly Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of...
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The Bodley Head. Hargest, Brigadier James (1945). Farewell Campo 12. Michael Joseph. Harvey, David; Best, Brian (2010) [1999]. Monuments To Courage...
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On 31 March 2nd Armoured Division under the command of Maj-Gen Michael Gambier-Parry was holding the front when Gen Erwin Rommel opened the Axis counter-offensive...
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Macready, Roderic Petre, Alastair MacDougall, Edmond Schreiber, Michael Gambier-Parry, Richard Dewing, Leslie Hill, Kenneth Loch, Douglas Pratt, Balfour...
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Bahru Battle of Singapore - Battle of Pasir Panjang Commanders Last commanding officer Brig G.C.R. Williams Notable commanders Michael Gambier-Parry...
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war) 'Farewell Campo 12', Brigadier James Hargest, C.B.E., D.S.O. M.C., Michael Joseph Ltd, 1945, 184 pages contains a sketch map of Castello Vincigliata...
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Military offices Preceded by Frederick Hotblack GOC 2nd Armoured Division 1940−1941 Succeeded by Michael Gambier-Parry...
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Command after the transfers to Greece), O'Connor, and Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry, commander of the 2nd Armoured Division, were captured. The Western...
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elements of the German 5th Light Division. On 8 April British General Michael Gambier-Parry surrendered to Axis forces. In the aftermath of the counter-attack...
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1923 to 1924. His fellow students there included Montagu Stopford, Michael Gambier-Parry, Dudley Johnson, Gordon Macready, Arthur Percival, Frederick Pile...
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the west face and the PAVO the east. The next day, Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry, commander of the 2nd Armoured Division, sent a message to Mechili...
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Douglas Henry Pratt, Robert Stone, John Halsted, Frederick Pile, Michael Gambier-Parry, Henry Wemyss, Robert Pargiter, Edmond Schreiber, Alastair MacDougall...
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In 1946, he married Gillian, younger daughter of Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry; they had a son and a daughter. From 1949 to 1980 he was joint editor...
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Sport History. 3 April 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2019. Major [Earnest] Gambier-Parry (1907). Annals of an Eton house, with some notes on the Evans family...
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