George Johnson (British Army officer)

Major General Sir George Frederick Johnson, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO, DL (28 November 1903 – 23 July 1980) was a senior British Army officer who fought in the Second World War and was Major-General commanding the Household Brigade and General Officer Commanding London District.

[6] He then served in Palestine during the Arab revolt as a General Staff Officer Grade 3 (GSO3) with the 5th Division, before appointed a GSO at London District in 1939.

[4] He went on to be Commander of 201st Guards Motor Brigade Group and was captured while fighting in the Western Desert Campaign in North Africa in 1942 and became a prisoner of war in Italy, but escaped in 1943.

[7] In 1938, he married Lady Ida Mary Ramsay, daughter of the 14th Earl Dalhousie, at Brechin Cathedral.

They received a silver bowl from King George VI and Queen Elizabeth as a wedding present.

Brigadier Johnson, who commanded 'Operation Polly' (the evacuation of all non-essential personnel from Palestine) has a word with an evacuee who is about to leave Lydda station on the last evacuation train for Egypt.