Allegiance United Kingdom Role Cricket Player Rank Major-general Name Ronald Bramwell-Davis Service/branch British Army | Battles/wars World War II Battles and wars World War II Commands held Aldershot District Died May 12, 1974 | |
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Buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery Place of burial Aldershot Military Cemetery Awards Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order | ||
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.
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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.
Military career
Bramwell-Davis was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry in 1925. He played for Berkshire County Cricket Club in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship in 1933. 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. Returning to the United Kingdom, he was appointed Chief of Staff at Southern Command.
Bramwell-Davis became General Officer Commanding Aldershot District in 1956 and was appointed CB in 1957. He retired in 1960.
He was also Colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers.
Ronald Bramwell-Davis is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery.