George Desmond Gregory, T.D., M.B.E., (born 10 November 1916 in Hertingfordbury - died 24 June 2010 in Brighton, Sussex) was a wartime British Army staff officer, schoolmaster, and historian of British military operations during the War of the French Revolution and Napoleonic War with a special interest in the Mediterranean islands.
[1] The only son of George Redmayne Gregory, a solicitor, he attended Uppingham School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied under the tutelage of Professor Vivian Hunter Galbraith, and Kenneth Norman Bell.
He served in Iraq in 1942; with the 8th Army in Tunisia in 1943 and participated in Operation Avalanche the landing at Salerno, Italy in September 1943.
He showed, on every occasion, great gallantry and complete coolness under fire, and his splendid example of cheerful indifference to danger was an inspiration to all who saw it.
[12] On reaching the age limit for military service on 10 November 1966, he relinquished his commission, retaining the honorary rank of major in the Lancashire Fusiliers.
He initially began with studies of British military operations in the Mediterranean islands, then branched out to biography to follow the careers of two officers who he had encountered in his writing, then wrote on Italy and Latin America.