Basil Eugster
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". General Sir Basil Oscar Paul Eugster, Template:Post-nominals (15 August 1914 – 5 April 1984) was a senior British Army officer who served as Commander in Chief, UK Land Forces from 1972 to 1974.
Army career
A British soldier of Swiss descent,[1] Basil Oscar Paul Eugster attended Beaumont College.[2] In 1935 he joined the Irish Guards.[3] He served with his regiment through the Second World War and fought in the Narvik Campaign in Norway in 1940.[3] He was commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion Irish Guards in 1945, and again in 1947, and of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards from 1951 to 1954.[3]
Eugster served as commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade in Cyprus from 1959 to 1962 and was then General Officer Commanding 4th Division in Germany from 1963 to 1965.[3] He went on to become Major-General commanding the Household Brigade and General Officer Commanding London District from 1965 to 1968 and Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong from 1968 to 1970.[3] In 1966, Eugster was awarded the Austrian Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star.[4] He was then General Officer Commanding Southern Command from 1971 to 1972.[3] He served as the Commander in Chief, UK Land Forces from 1972 to 1974 when he retired.[3]
Later career
Eugster was Colonel of the Regiment of the Irish Guards until his death in 1984, aged 69.[5]
References
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- ↑ Beat de Fischer, 2000 Ans de Presence Suisse en Angleterre: L'etonnante epopee des Suisses D'Outre-Manche, de L'epoque Romaine a la Communaute Europeenne
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- ↑ a b c d e f g Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
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- ↑ Irish Guards: History
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