MILITARY PERSONNEL

Guy Simonds

1903 - 1974

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Lieutenant-General Guy Granville Simonds, (April 23, 1903 – May 15, 1974) was a senior Canadian Army officer who served with distinction during World War II. Acknowledged by many military historians and senior commanders, among them Sir Max Hastings and Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, as one of the best Canadian generals of the war, Simonds, after serving the first few years of the Second World War mainly as a staff officer, commanded the 1st Canadian Infantry Division with distinction in Sicily and Italy from July 1943 until January 1944, and later II Canadian Corps during the Battle of Normandy from June−August 1944 and throughout the subsequent campaign in Western Europe from 1944, towards the end of which he temporarily commanded the First Canadian Army during the Battle of the Scheldt, until victory in Europe Day in May 1945. The historian J. L. Granatstein states about Simonds: "No Canadian commander rose higher and faster in the Second World War, and none did as well in action. Simonds owed his success wholly to his own abilities and efforts—and those of the men who served under him." After the end of the war, he went to the Imperial Defence College (IDC) in London, initially as a student and later as an instructor, before returning to Canada to command the National Defence College, Canada. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy Simonds has received more than 242,205 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Guy Simonds is the 1,913th most popular military personnel (down from 1,481st in 2019), the 4,628th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,305th in 2019) and the 113th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Guy Simonds ranks 1,913 out of 2,058. Before him are Nikolai Yevmenov, John Abizaid, James Stockdale, Eddie Rickenbacker, Christy Mathewson, and Willis Augustus Lee. After him are Lisa Franchetti, Mamadu Ture Kuruma, William Rosecrans, John C. Pemberton, Joseph Dunford, and James Wilkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Guy Simonds ranks 321. Before him are Niní Marshall, George Padmore, Franciska Gaal, Grethe Weiser, Kathryn McGuire, and John Heysham Gibbon. After him are Alfredo Copello, Roy Acuff, Fernand Jourdant, Raymond Flacher, Una Merkel, and Daphne Akhurst. Among people deceased in 1974, Guy Simonds ranks 227. Before him are Giuseppe Moro, Rafael Garza Gutiérrez, Katharine Cornell, Richard Long, Angelo Zorzi, and Mirdza Ķempe. After him are Richard Lawrence, Leon Shamroy, Dušan Marković, Eduard Kainberger, Nina Agadzhanova, and Gene Ammons.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Guy Simonds ranks 4,628 out of 8,785. Before him are Paul Nash (1889), Allan Jay (1931), Parminder Nagra (1975), Neil Kinnock (1942), Howard Kendall (1946), and Amos Burn (1848). After him are Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761), Annie Kenney (1879), Jonathan Palmer (1956), Arthur Symons (1865), Nick Rhodes (1962), and Isaac Hempstead Wright (1999).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Guy Simonds ranks 113. Before him are John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), Oliver Leese (1894), John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885), John Dill (1881), and John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896). After him are Arnold Jackson (1891), George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800), Hubert Gough (1870), Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862), Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792), and Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880).

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