Douglas Wimberley

Who was Douglas Wimberley?

Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley CB, DSO, MC was commander of the 51st Division at the Second Battle of El Alamein in the Second World War and lead it across North Africa to Sicily.

A career soldier, he became an officer during the Great War of 1914-1918 on the Western Front. He later served as a staff and line Officer in many parts of the British Empire in the interwar years, before rising to the command of the unit which would make his name in the Middle East.

After the war he served as the Principal of University College, Dundee before retiring and writing his memoirs.