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Major General Basil Aubrey Coad CB CBE DSO * DL (27 September 1906 – 26 March 1980) was a senior British Army officer. He held battalion, brigade and divisional commands during the Second World War and immediately after, but is best known as the commander of 27th British Commonwealth Brigade during the Korean War. After his involvement in Korea, he held a further divisional command, and then a senior administrative position in the army before retiring. In retirement, he continued his connection with the army, serving as Colonel of his former regiment, and assisting in writing the official history of the Korean War. He was also appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire. ==Early life and career== Coad was born on 27 September 1906 at Portsmouth. He was educated at Felsted School and Royal Military College Sandhurst. From Sandhurst he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Wiltshire Regiment on 4 February 1926. He was soon bound for British India to join his battalion. After a few years' service there he was posted to Shanghai, then one of the treaty ports, in January 1929, promoted to lieutenant on 4 February, and appointed as Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal from December that year.〔 Coad returned to the United Kingdom in 1934 and was appointed adjutant of 2nd Battalion Wiltshires.〔 On 22 January 1937 he was seconded to the 4th Battalion (a Territorial Army battalion) to serve as its adjutant, at the same time he was granted temporary rank as a captain in the TA. He was promoted to substantive captain on 18 March 1938. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Basil Coad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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