John Westall

General Sir John Chaddesley Westall, KCB, CBE ( 2 July 1901 – 30 September 1986) was a New Zealand Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1952 to 1955.

Sir John Westall
Birth nameJohn Chaddesley Westall
Born2 July 1901[1]
Napier, New Zealand
Died30 September 1986(1986-09-30) (aged 85)[2]
Christchurch, New Zealand
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchRoyal Marines
Years of service1919–1955
RankGeneral
Commands heldCommandant General Royal Marines
Battles/warsSecond World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Military career

Born in Napier, New Zealand,[3] Westall joined the Royal Marines in 1919.[4] He served in the Second World War as a Staff Officer in intelligence activities in Singapore and Malaya from 1939 and as a Staff Officer in intelligence activities in India and Burma from 1942 before becoming a Staff Officer at the Director of Naval Intelligence Department in the Admiralty in 1944.[4] After the war he became Commander of Infantry Training Centre, Royal Marines and then a Staff Officer in intelligence activities in Cape Town from 1947.[4] He was appointed Chief Staff Officer at Plymouth in 1948, Commander of the Royal Marine Barracks at Plymouth in 1949 and Commander of the Royal Marine Barracks at Deal in 1950.[4] He went on to be Chief of Staff to the Commandant General Royal Marines in 1951, and Commandant General Royal Marines in 1952 before retiring in 1955.[4]

References
  1. "Westall, John Chaddesley". The National Archives (UK). 1 October 1919. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  2. "Deaths". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 9 October 1986. p. 1.
  3. "A brief history of the Royal Marines and New Zealand" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
  4. Sir John Chaddesley Westall Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Leslie Hollis		 Commandant General Royal Marines
1952–1955		 Succeeded by
Sir Campbell Hardy
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