honorific_prefix caption serviceyears branch commands laterwork death_date death_place birth_place awards honorific_suffix battles birth_date nickname rank article_title name
major-general wimberley as principal of university college , dundee 1915 - 1946 british army 1st brigade 46th division 51st -lrb- highland -rrb- division staff college cameron , camberley highlanders 13th brigade 152nd seaforth and cameron principal of university college , dundee 26 august 1983 -lrb- aged 87 -rrb- coupar angus inverness companion order military cross mentioned in despatches of the order of the bath distinguished service gbr cb dso mc first alamein - el agheila - medinine world war second world war : - second 15 august 1896 tartan tam major-general douglas wimberley
 douglas neil wimberley
douglas wimberley

major-general douglas neil wimberley -lrb- 15 august 1896 -- 26 august 1983 -rrb- was commander of the 51st -lrb- highland -rrb- 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 .
