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data-file-height="693" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="font-size: 100%">Lieutenant General Sir Humfrey Gale, pictured here between 1939−1945.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1890-10-04</span>)</span>4 October 1890<br /><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">8 April 1971<span style="display:none">(1971-04-08)</span> (aged 80)<br /><a href="/wiki/La_Tour-de-Peilz" title="La Tour-de-Peilz">La Tour-de-Peilz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vaud" title="Vaud">Vaud</a>, Switzerland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Buried</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="label">Corsier-Sur-Vevey Cemetery, <a href="/wiki/Vaud" title="Vaud">Vaud</a>, 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campaign">Tunisian campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily" title="Allied invasion of Sicily">Allied invasion of Sicily</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy" title="Allied invasion of Italy">Allied invasion of Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord">Operation Overlord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allied_advance_from_Paris_to_the_Rhine" class="mw-redirect" title="Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine">Siegfried Line Campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">Battle of the Bulge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Allied_invasion_of_Germany" title="Western Allied invasion of Germany">Western Allied invasion of Germany</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire">Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of the Bath">Companion of the Order of the Bath</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Royal Victorian Order">Commander of the Royal Victorian Order</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Military_Cross" title="Military Cross">Military Cross</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mentioned_in_Despatches" class="mw-redirect" title="Mentioned in Despatches">Mentioned in Despatches</a> (2)<br /><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Wen-Hu" title="Order of Wen-Hu">Order of Wen-Hu, 5th Class</a> (China)<br /><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army)" title="Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)">Army Distinguished Service Medal</a> (United States)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Merit" title="Legion of Merit">Legion of Merit</a> (United States)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Other work</th><td class="infobox-data">European Director of <a href="/wiki/UNRRA" class="mw-redirect" title="UNRRA">UNRRA</a><br />Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Basildon" title="Basildon">Basildon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a> <a href="/wiki/New_towns_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="New towns in the United Kingdom">New Town</a> <a href="/wiki/Development_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Development Corporation">Development Corporation</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant-general_(United_Kingdom)" title="Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)">Lieutenant General</a> <b>Sir Humfrey Myddelton Gale</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire">KBE</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of the Bath">CB</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Royal Victorian Order">CVO</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Military_Cross" title="Military Cross">MC</a></span></span> (4 October 1890 – 8 April 1971) was an officer in the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> who served in the <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First</a> and <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>, during which he was Chief Administrative Officer at <a href="/wiki/Allied_Forces_Headquarters" class="mw-redirect" title="Allied Forces Headquarters">Allied Forces Headquarters</a> and later <a href="/wiki/SHAEF" class="mw-redirect" title="SHAEF">SHAEF</a> under General <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>. After the Second World War he was European Director of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Relief_and_Rehabilitation_Administration" title="United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration">United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration</a>, worked for the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Iranian_Oil_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Iranian Oil Company">Anglo-Iranian Oil Company</a>, and was chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Basildon" title="Basildon">Basildon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a> <a href="/wiki/New_towns_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="New towns in the United Kingdom">New Town</a> <a href="/wiki/Development_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Development Corporation">Development Corporation</a> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Humfrey_Gale&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Humfrey Myddelton Gale was born in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England on 4 October 1890, the eldest of five children of Ernest Sewell Gale, an architect, and his wife Charlotte Sarah née Goddard. He was educated at <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_School,_London" title="St Paul's School, London">St Paul's School, London</a> and studied at the Architectural School, Westminster from 1908 to 1910.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmart2005110_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmart2005110-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While there he served with the <a href="/wiki/Artists_Rifles" class="mw-redirect" title="Artists Rifles">Artists Rifles</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Territorial_Force" title="Territorial Force">Territorial Force</a>. He decided to pursue a career in the <a href="/wiki/British_Indian_Army" title="British Indian Army">British Indian Army</a> and applied to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Military_College,_Sandhurst" title="Royal Military College, Sandhurst">Royal Military College, Sandhurst</a>. His application was successful and he entered the college in 1910. However, he did not graduate sufficiently high in his class to qualify for a posting to the Indian Army and was instead commissioned as a <a href="/wiki/Second_lieutenant" title="Second lieutenant">second lieutenant</a> in the Army Service Corps (later the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Army_Service_Corps" title="Royal Army Service Corps">Royal Army Service Corps</a>) of the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> in September 1911. His early service was at <a href="/wiki/Woolwich" title="Woolwich">Woolwich</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aldershot" title="Aldershot">Aldershot</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmart2005111_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmart2005111-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_World_War">First World War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Humfrey_Gale&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: First World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the First World War, Gale served on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a>, where he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Military_Cross" title="Military Cross">Military Cross</a> in 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)">lieutenant</a> and then <a href="/wiki/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)">captain</a> in 1914. In 1915, he became Deputy Assistant Director of Transport, <a href="/wiki/British_Expeditionary_Force_(World_War_I)" title="British Expeditionary Force (World War I)">British Expeditionary Force</a> (BEF), and served in that post at General Headquarters for the remainder of the war.<sup id="cite_ref-LHCMA_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LHCMA-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was twice <a href="/wiki/Mentioned_in_despatches" class="mw-redirect" title="Mentioned in despatches">mentioned in despatches</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Wen-Hu" title="Order of Wen-Hu">Order of Wen-Hu</a> (5th Class).<sup id="cite_ref-Wen-Hu_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wen-Hu-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He married Winifred Cross in 1917. Their marriage lasted until her death in 1936, and produced two daughters.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Between_the_wars">Between the wars</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Humfrey_Gale&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Between the wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the war over due to the <a href="/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918" title="Armistice of 11 November 1918">armistice with Germany</a> on 11 November 1918, Gale served as a staff captain at the <a href="/wiki/War_Office" title="War Office">War Office</a> in London from 1919 to 1923. Thereafter his military service during the <a href="/wiki/Interwar_period" title="Interwar period">interwar period</a> alternated between regimental duty at home and in Egypt, and postings to the War Office. He was promoted to the brevet rank of <a href="/wiki/Major_(United_Kingdom)" title="Major (United Kingdom)">major</a> in 1921 but was not promoted substantially until 1930. He attended the <a href="/wiki/Staff_College,_Camberley" title="Staff College, Camberley">Staff College, Camberley</a> from 1924−1925.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmart2005111_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmart2005111-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his many fellow students there were men such as <a href="/wiki/Noel_Irwin" title="Noel Irwin">Noel Irwin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daril_Watson" title="Daril Watson">Daril Watson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ivor_Thomas_(British_Army_officer)" title="Ivor Thomas (British Army officer)">Ivor Thomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clifford_Malden" title="Clifford Malden">Clifford Malden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_O%27Moore_Creagh" title="Michael O'Moore Creagh">Michael Creagh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Riddell-Webster" title="Thomas Riddell-Webster">Thomas Riddell-Webster</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Harter" title="James Harter">James Harter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Rigby_Wason" title="Sydney Rigby Wason">Sydney Rigby Wason</a>, <a href="/wiki/Otto_Marling_Lund" title="Otto Marling Lund">Otto Marling Lund</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Edward_Barstow" title="Arthur Edward Barstow">Arthur Edward Barstow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vyvyan_Pope" title="Vyvyan Pope">Vyvyan Pope</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Reade_Godwin-Austen" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen">Reade Godwin-Austen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archibald_Nye" title="Archibald Nye">Archibald Nye</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Lammie" title="George Lammie">George Lammie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Noel_Beresford-Peirse" title="Noel Beresford-Peirse">Noel Beresford-Peirse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Raikes" title="Geoffrey Raikes">Geoffrey Raikes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Graham_(British_Army_officer)" title="Douglas Graham (British Army officer)">Douglas Graham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Finch" title="Lionel Finch">Lionel Finch</a>, along with <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Stuart" title="Kenneth Stuart">Kenneth Stuart</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Army" title="Canadian Army">Canadian Army</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Northcott" title="John Northcott">John Northcott</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Army" title="Australian Army">Australian Army</a>. All of these men would, like Gale himself, become <a href="/wiki/General_officer" title="General officer">general officers</a> in the future war.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmart2005111_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmart2005111-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After graduating from the Staff College, he then attended the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Naval_College,_Greenwich" title="Royal Naval College, Greenwich">Royal Naval College, Greenwich</a>, before returning to the War Office in 1928, where he became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General in 1930. After ten years as a major he was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_colonel_(United_Kingdom)" title="Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)">lieutenant colonel</a> in 1932 and, in 1934, he returned to the Staff College, where he served as an instructor. He became Assistant Director of Shipping and Transport, War Office and was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Colonel_(United_Kingdom)" title="Colonel (United Kingdom)">colonel</a> in 1937 and then <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_(United_Kingdom)" title="Brigadier (United Kingdom)">brigadier</a> in 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-LHCMA_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LHCMA-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Second_World_War">Second World War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Humfrey_Gale&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Second World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:80-G-57185_(34371239466).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/80-G-57185_%2834371239466%29.jpg/220px-80-G-57185_%2834371239466%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/80-G-57185_%2834371239466%29.jpg/330px-80-G-57185_%2834371239466%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/80-G-57185_%2834371239466%29.jpg/440px-80-G-57185_%2834371239466%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2336" data-file-height="1792" /></a><figcaption>From left to right: Lieutenant General Sir Humfrey Gale, Admiral John Cunningham, RN, Commander W.A. Sullivan, USN, Captain W.A. Donst, RN in Naples, Italy, 9 November 1943. </figcaption></figure> <p>Following the outbreak of the Second World War, in September 1939, Gale was appointed Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General of the <a href="/wiki/III_Corps_(United_Kingdom)" title="III Corps (United Kingdom)">III Corps</a>, which was deployed to France with the new <a href="/wiki/British_Expeditionary_Force_(World_War_II)" title="British Expeditionary Force (World War II)">British Expeditionary Force</a> (BEF) in 1940. He was responsible for administrative arrangements during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dunkirk" title="Battle of Dunkirk">Battle of Dunkirk</a> and managed to keep the supply system working.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For his services in the campaign, he was appointed a <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CBE_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBE-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gale was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Major-general_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Major-general (United Kingdom)">major general</a> in October 1940 and appointed Major General, Administration (MGA), <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Command" title="Scottish Command">Scottish Command</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MAJGEN_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MAJGEN-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1941 he became Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) to <a href="/wiki/General_(United_Kingdom)" title="General (United Kingdom)">General</a> <a href="/wiki/Alan_Brooke,_1st_Viscount_Alanbrooke" title="Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke">Sir Alan Brooke</a>, then the <a href="/wiki/Commander-in-Chief,_Home_Forces" title="Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces">Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces</a> and, from December 1941 onwards, the <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_the_General_Staff_(United_Kingdom)" title="Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)">Chief of the Imperial General Staff</a> (CIGS).<sup id="cite_ref-LHCMA_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LHCMA-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His work was recognised in June 1942 when he was appointed a <a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of the Bath">Companion of the Order of the Bath</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CB_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CB-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hmwilson-churchill-eisenhow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Hmwilson-churchill-eisenhow.jpg/220px-Hmwilson-churchill-eisenhow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Hmwilson-churchill-eisenhow.jpg/330px-Hmwilson-churchill-eisenhow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Hmwilson-churchill-eisenhow.jpg/440px-Hmwilson-churchill-eisenhow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="790" /></a><figcaption>A convalescent <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> meets the outgoing and incoming Supreme Commanders in the Mediterranean, <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>, to Churchill's right, and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Maitland_Wilson" title="Henry Maitland Wilson">Henry Maitland Wilson</a>, to his left. Behind them stand (from left to right), <a href="/wiki/John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer)" title="John Whiteley (British Army officer)">John Whiteley</a>, Air Marshal <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Tedder,_1st_Baron_Tedder" title="Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder">Arthur Tedder</a>, Brigadier <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Thompson_(British_Army_officer)" title="Geoffrey Thompson (British Army officer)">G. S. Thompson</a>, Admiral <a href="/wiki/John_Cunningham_(Royal_Navy_officer)" title="John Cunningham (Royal Navy officer)">Sir John Cunningham</a>, unknown, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Alexander,_1st_Earl_Alexander_of_Tunis" title="Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis">Sir Harold Alexander</a>, Captain <a href="/wiki/Manley_Laurence_Power" title="Manley Laurence Power">M. L. Power</a>, Humfrey Gale, <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Hollis" title="Leslie Hollis">Leslie Hollis</a>, and Eisenhower's <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_staff" title="Chief of staff">chief of staff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Bedell_Smith" title="Walter Bedell Smith">Walter Bedell Smith</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>On 15 September 1942 Gale was appointed its CAO of American <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_general_(United_States)" title="Lieutenant general (United States)">Lieutenant General</a> <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Allied_Force_Headquarters" title="Allied Force Headquarters">Allied Forces Headquarters</a> (AFHQ).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the general staff sections of AFHQ were integrated, the British and American administrative systems differed so greatly that separate organisations were established.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gale's job, which Eisenhower called "unique in the history of war", was to coordinate the two.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the <a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily" title="Allied invasion of Sicily">Allied invasion of Sicily</a> in July 1943, Gale was tasked with the planning and coordination of the sea convoys. 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. For a time it was feared that demands of the Sicilian operation would be so great that other operations would have to be curtailed.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For his contribution to the victory in the <a href="/wiki/Tunisian_campaign" title="Tunisian campaign">Tunisian campaign</a>, he was created a <a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire">Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a> in August 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-KBE_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KBE-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also appointed a <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Royal Victorian Order">Commander of the Royal Victorian Order</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-CVO_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CVO-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was awarded the United States <a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Merit" title="Legion of Merit">Legion of Merit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Eisenhower left the Mediterranean to become the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Allied_Commander" title="Supreme Allied Commander">Supreme Allied Commander</a> in Europe, Gale was one of a number of key officers that Eisenhower insisted on taking with him to his new headquarters, <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Headquarters_Allied_Expeditionary_Force" title="Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force">Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force</a> (SHAEF). When Brooke, the CIGS, demurred at this, Eisenhower's chief of staff, Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Walter_Bedell_Smith" title="Walter Bedell Smith">Walter Bedell Smith</a>, pointed out that Eisenhower had always felt "he would be unwilling to undertake another large Allied Command without Gale's administrative assistance ... He has that irreplaceable quality of being able to handle British-American supply problems with tact and judgement and he is almost as familiar with the American system of supply as with the British."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, Gale found that while his title at SHAEF was the same, his role was different from that at AFHQ. In the Mediterranean he had had broad responsibility for logistics. In the European theatre, General <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery" title="Bernard Montgomery">Sir Bernard Montgomery</a>'s Anglo-Canadian <a href="/wiki/21st_Army_Group" title="21st Army Group">21st Army Group</a> controlled its own supply while the American units had Headquarters, <a href="/wiki/Communications_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Communications Zone">Communications Zone</a> under Major General <a href="/wiki/John_C._H._Lee" title="John C. H. Lee">John C. H. Lee</a>. At SHAEF, Gale had less real control over supply and administration than at AFHQ and his duties mostly involved coordinating the activities of the SHAEF staff sections and serving as chairman of various high-level committees that dealt with matters of supply.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gale was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant-general in August 1944,<sup id="cite_ref-LTGEN_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LTGEN-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in January 1945 he became <a href="/wiki/Colonel_Commandant" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonel Commandant">Colonel Commandant</a> of the Royal Army Service Corps,<sup id="cite_ref-RASC_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RASC-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a position he held until 1954. He was also colonel commandant of the <a href="/wiki/Army_Catering_Corps" title="Army Catering Corps">Army Catering Corps</a> from 1946 to 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For his work at SHAEF, he was awarded the American <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army)" title="Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)">Army Distinguished Service Medal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-war">Post-war</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Humfrey_Gale&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Post-war"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gale married again in 1945, this time to Minnie Grace, the daughter of Count Gregorini-Bigham of <a href="/wiki/Bologna" title="Bologna">Bologna</a> and the widow of Prince <a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Louis_of_Beauvau-Craon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Louis of Beauvau-Craon (page does not exist)">Charles Louis of Beauvau-Craon</a>. From September 1945 to July 1947 he was the European Director of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Relief_and_Rehabilitation_Administration" title="United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration">United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gale retired from the British Army with the honorary rank of lieutenant general in October 1947,<sup id="cite_ref-retires_as_LTGEN_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-retires_as_LTGEN-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and took up a position with the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Iranian_Oil_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Iranian Oil Company">Anglo-Iranian Oil Company</a>. In 1954 <a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Harold Macmillan</a> persuaded Gale to become chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Basildon" title="Basildon">Basildon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a> <a href="/wiki/New_towns_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="New towns in the United Kingdom">New Town</a> <a href="/wiki/Development_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Development Corporation">Development Corporation</a>, a post Gale served in until 1964. Macmillan described Gale as one of the most efficient officers he had ever known. Gale and Minnie lived in <a href="/wiki/La_Tour_de_Peilz" class="mw-redirect" title="La Tour de Peilz">La Tour de Peilz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vaud" title="Vaud">Vaud</a>, Switzerland, where he died on 8 April 1971, at the age of 80.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His papers are in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives.<sup id="cite_ref-LHCMA_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LHCMA-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Humfrey_Gale&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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