Major-General Sir William Godwin Michelmore, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, TD, JP, DL (14 March 1894 – 25 October 1982) was a senior British Army officer who served in both world wars and was later aide-de-camp to King George VI and Lord Mayor of Exeter.
Godwin Michelmore was born in Exeter, Devon, and educated at Rugby School.
During the First World War, Michelmore was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the British Army's Royal Engineers and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele, where he was wounded.
By the end of the war, Michelmore had been promoted to acting major and had been awarded the Military Cross (MC)[1] and had been twice mentioned in despatches.
[2] From 1920 to 1929 he commanded the Exeter-based 43rd (Wessex) Divisional Signals in the Territorial Army (TA), first as a Major, then as Lieutenant-Colonel.