Description: Up for auction the "Commandant of the Royal Marines" British General Ian Gourlay Signed TLS Dated 1974. ES-8799 Sir Basil Ian Spencer Gourlay (13 November 1920 – 17 July 2013) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1971 to 1975. Gourlay was born on 13 November 1920 to Brigadier K. I. Gourlay and Victoria May Gourlay (née Oldrini). He was educated at Eastbourne College, an independent school in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Gourlay was commissioned into the Royal Marines in 1940. His commission was confirmed on 20 January 1942 and he was given seniority in the rank of lieutenant from 14 June 1941. He served on the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable, with which he saw active service in the Arctic, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean between 1941 and 1944. Promoted to acting captain on 16 June 1944, he served in 43 Commando in Yugoslavia and Italy from 1944 to 1945. He was awarded the Military Cross for his actions fighting at Šolta in the Dalmatian Islands in 1944.Promoted to captain on 15 June 1949, he was appointed Commanding Officer of 42 Commando in 1963, Colonel on the General Staff of the Commandant General Royal Marines in 1965 and Commander of 3 Commando Brigade in 1966. He went on to be Commander, Training Group Royal Marines in 1968 and Commandant General Royal Marines in 1971 before being promoted to general on 1 November 1973. He was described by Lord Mountbatten, who had been Colonel Commandant of the Royal Marines, as "the best Commandant General the Royal Marines had ever had" He retired from the Royal Marines on 9 June 1975.
Price: 99.99 USD
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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