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William Donovan Stamer : ウィキペディア英語版 | William Donovan Stamer
Major-General William Donovan Stamer CB, CBE, DSO, MC (14 June 1895 – 21 September 1963) was a senior officer of the British Army who was commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regiment at the outbreak of the First World War and served in the Army until retirement in 1948, finishing his career with the temporary rank of Major-general and serving as General Officer Commanding Sudan and Eritrea. ==First World War== After being educated at Rugby School, Stamer attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned as a Second lieutenant into the North Staffordshire Regiment on 19 August 1914 (just two weeks after Great Britain declared war on Germany), although this was subsequently backdated to 8 August 1914. He joined the regiment's 1st Battalion in France, serving as part of 17th Brigade of the 6th Division, in November 1914 and was promoted to Lieutenant in December 1914. After a period as an acting-Captain, Stamer was promoted to Captain in March 1917. In November 1917 he was Mentioned in Despatches by Sir Douglas Haig, commanding the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front, and about the same time was appointed the battalion adjutant. Stamer was still the battalion adjutant when the German Army launched its Spring Offensive in March 1918. On the first day of the offensive the battalion headquarters position was overrun and Stamer led a rearguard action despite during which he was wounded in the head. For his actions on that day he was awarded the Military Cross, the citation read: It was July before he returned to duty and in September he was appointed as second-in-command of the battalion with the rank of acting-Major. In the closing weeks of the war Stamer assumed command of the battalion when, during the Battle of the Selle, the commanding officer Lieutenant colonel Hodson was severely wounded and continued to command the battalion until the Armistice with Germany and after, being appointed an acting (later temporary) Lt-Col.
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