Geoffrey Thompson (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Sir Geoffrey Stuart Thompson KBE CB DSO (6 January 1905 – 15 November 1983) was a senior British Army officer who became Military Secretary.

[3][4] He served in World War II and from 1942 was attached the French Forces in the Middle East.

Thompson was asked to create a plan to push back the Soviet Forces into Poland.

The plan could only muster some 47 UK and US Divisions against 170 Soviet ones and controversially sought to rearm Wehrmacht and SS troops to close the gap.

[4] He was appointed Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1957 and Military Secretary in 1959.

A convalescent Winston Churchill meets the outgoing and incoming Supreme Commanders in the Mediterranean, Dwight D. Eisenhower , to Churchill's right, and Henry Maitland Wilson , to his left. Behind them stand (from left to right), John Whiteley , Air Marshal Arthur Tedder , Brigadier G. S. Thompson, Admiral Sir John Cunningham , unknown, Sir Harold Alexander , Captain M. L. Power , Humfrey Gale , Leslie Hollis , and Eisenhower's chief of staff , Walter Bedell Smith .