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General Sir Cameron Gordon Graham Nicholson, (30 June 1898 – 7 July 1979) was a British Army officer who served as Adjutant-General to the Forces. He later served as Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. ==Military career== Cameron Nicholson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1915.〔Who Was Who Volume V11 1971 to 1980 (1981)〕 He served in the First World War and was awarded MC and Bar in 1918.〔 Nicholson served with the Royal Horse Artillery in France, India, Iraq, Palestine and Egypt from 1917 to 1927.〔 He served as an Instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1927 to 1930 and then as an Instructor at the Staff College, Camberley from 1938 to 1939.〔 He served in the Second World War and was awarded DSO and Bar in 1940.〔 He was appointed Commander of Support Group, 42 Armoured Division in 1941 and then second-in-command of 6 Armoured Division in 1942. In 1943 he became Brigadier General Staff for the 1st Army.〔 In February 1943 Field Marshal Erwin Rommel launched an assault, known as the Battle of the Kasserine Pass, on units of the British First Army in Tunisia. Brigadier Cameron Nicholson proved an effective combat leader who kept his remaining forces steady under relentless German hammering. The stubborn resistance of the British ''Nickforce'', led by Cameron Nicholson, enabled British Forces to hold the vital road leading into the Kasserine Pass against the heavy pressure of the German 10th Panzer Division, which was under Rommel's direct command.〔Murray, Brian J. Facing The Fox, America in World War II, (April 2006)〕 In 1944 he became General Officer Commanding 44th Indian Armoured Division, a post he held until 1944.〔 He then became successively GOC 21st Indian Infantry Division, GOC 2nd Division, GOC 5th Indian Infantry Division and then GOC 2nd Division again - all of which commands were held while fighting in Burma.〔(Generals.dk )〕 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「Cameron Nicholson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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