George Gordon-Lennox

Lieutenant-General Sir George "Geordie" Charles Gordon-Lennox KBE CB CVO DSO (29 May 1908 – 11 May 1988) was a senior British Army officer who served during the Second World War.

[3] He fought with the Grenadier Guards in the Second World War, in which he was wounded at the Battle of Anzio in 1944.

[1] In 1951, Gordon-Lennox was appointed Commanding Officer of the Grenadier Guards[3] and in 1952 he was awarded the CVO.

[3] A year later, he was knighted and transferred to Scotland where he was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle until 1966.

[3] In 1965, he became Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders and his last post was in retirement, as King of Arms of the Order of the British Empire from 1968 until 1983.