Second World War: Lieutenant General Sir Humfrey Myddelton Gale, KBE, CB, CVO, MC (4 October 1890 – 8 April 1971) was an officer in the British Army who served in the First and Second World War, during which he was Chief Administrative Officer at Allied Forces Headquarters and later SHAEF under General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

After the Second World War he was European Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, worked for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and was chairman of the Basildon, Essex New Town Development Corporation Humfrey Myddelton Gale was born in London, England on 4 October 1890, the eldest of five children of Ernest Sewell Gale, an architect, and his wife Charlotte Sarah née Goddard.

In 1915, he became Deputy Assistant Director of Transport, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), and served in that post at General Headquarters for the remainder of the war.

[3] Among his many fellow students there were men such as Noel Irwin, Daril Watson, Ivor Thomas, Clifford Malden, Michael Creagh, Thomas Riddell-Webster, James Harter, Sydney Rigby Wason, Otto Marling Lund, Arthur Edward Barstow, Vyvyan Pope, Reade Godwin-Austen, Archibald Nye, George Lammie, Noel Beresford-Peirse, Geoffrey Raikes, Douglas Graham and Lionel Finch, along with Kenneth Stuart of the Canadian Army and John Northcott of the Australian Army.

[5] Following the outbreak of the Second World War, in September 1939, Gale was appointed Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General of the III Corps, which was deployed to France with the new British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in 1940.

[9] On 15 September 1942 Gale was appointed its CAO of American Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ).

[10] While the general staff sections of AFHQ were integrated, the British and American administrative systems differed so greatly that separate organisations were established.

Ships had to depart multiple ports in the United Kingdom and the Middle East on a predefined schedule, loaded with enormous quantities of supplies, equipment, stores and troops.

[17] Gale was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant-general in August 1944,[18] and in January 1945 he became Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Service Corps,[19] a position he held until 1954.

[2] Gale married again in 1945, this time to Minnie Grace, the daughter of Count Gregorini-Bigham of Bologna and the widow of Prince Charles Louis of Beauvau-Craon.

[2] Gale retired from the British Army with the honorary rank of lieutenant general in October 1947,[20] and took up a position with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.