![]() ![]() ![]() He served as Military Assistant to the Secretary of State for War, Leslie Hore-Belisha, from 1939 to 1940, in which role he had exposure to the most senior officers in the army and developed skills in diplomacy.Īfter Hore-Belisha resigned, de Guingand was posted to the new staff college at Haifa in Mandatory Palestine as an instructor. Through the intervention of Montgomery, with whom he had formed a friendship with during their service together the 1920s and 1930s, he secured a nomination to 1935–36 course at the Staff College, Camberley. He served in India and Ireland, and was seconded to the King's African Rifles in Nyasaland from 1926 to 1931. ![]() He played an important diplomatic role in sustaining relations between the notoriously difficult Montgomery and his peers and superiors.Ī graduate of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, de Guingand joined the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) in December 1919. Major-General Sir Francis Wilfred "Freddie" de Guingand, KBE, CB, DSO (28 February 1900 – 29 June 1979) was a British Army officer who served as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's chief of staff from the Second Battle of El Alamein until the end of the Second World War. Send For Freddie: The Story of Montgomery's Chief of Staff Major-General Sir Francis De Guingand (1987) By General Sir Charles Richardson ![]()
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