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- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) abstract "General Sir John Francis Martin Whiteley GBE, KCB, MC (7 June 1896 – 20 May 1970) was Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff. A career British Army officer, Whiteley was commissioned in 1915 into the Royal Engineers from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. During the First World War he served in Salonika and the Middle East.In May 1940 he was posted to General Headquarters (GHQ) Middle East in Cairo as Brigadier, General Staff (BGS) (Operations) under General Sir Archibald Wavell. In March 1942 he became Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army, participating in the Battle of Gazala and the First Battle of El Alamein. In September 1942 Whiteley joined Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Allied Forces Headquarters as the British Deputy Chief of Staff. When Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Allied Commander for Operation Overlord in January 1944, Whiteley was one of three key British staff officers Eisenhower brought to England to staff the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). Whiteley initially became Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence (G-2) at SHAEF before becoming deputy to the Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations (G-3), Major General Harold Bull in May 1944.After a few months in Germany as Assistant Chief of Staff in the Control Commission, Whiteley was appointed Army Instructor at the Imperial Defence College to initiate the post-war courses under General Sir William Slim as Commandant. In 1947 Whiteley was selected for an exchange of appointments with Canada, and became Commandant of the Canadian National Defence College. He was Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff under Slim from 1949 until 1953, when he was promoted to General, and took up his last appointment, as chairman of the British Joint Services Mission, Washington, D.C. and UK Representative on the NATO Standing Group from 1953 to 1956.".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) award Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army).
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) award Legion_of_Merit.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) award Mentioned_in_dispatches.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) award Military_Cross.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) award Order_of_the_Bath.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) award Order_of_the_British_Empire.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Allied_advance_from_Paris_to_the_Rhine.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Allied_invasion_of_Italy.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Allied_invasion_of_Sicily.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Battle_of_Greece.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Battle_of_the_Bulge.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Macedonian_front.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Operation_Overlord.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Operation_Torch.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Sinai_and_Palestine_Campaign.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Tunisia_Campaign.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Western_Allied_invasion_of_Germany.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battle Western_Desert_Campaign.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) birthDate "1896-06-07".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) birthYear "1896".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) deathDate "1970-05-20".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) deathYear "1970".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) militaryBranch British_Army.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) militaryUnit Royal_Engineers.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) serviceEndYear "1956".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) serviceStartYear "1915".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) thumbnail Jock_Whiteley.jpg?width=300.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) wikiPageID "24659858".
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- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) after Alfred_Dudley_Ward.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) after Desmond_Smith_(general).
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) awards Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army).
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) awards Legion_of_Merit.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) awards Mentioned_in_dispatches.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) awards Military_Cross.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) awards Order_of_the_Bath.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) awards Order_of_the_British_Empire.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) battles "First World War: *Salonika Campaign *Sinai and Palestine Campaign Second World War: *Western Desert Campaign *Battle of Greece *Operation Torch *Tunisia Campaign *Allied invasion of Sicily *Allied invasion of Italy *Operation Overlord *Siegfried Line Campaign *Battle of the Bulge *Western Allied invasion of Germany".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) before Kenneth_Crawford.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) before "Brigadier General Donald Agnew".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) birthDate "1896-06-07".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) branch "23".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) caption "Major General John Whiteley".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) dateOfBirth "1896-06-07".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) dateOfDeath "1970-05-20".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) deathDate "1970-05-20".
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- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) name "Sir John Whiteley".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) name "Whiteley, John".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) nickname "Jock".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) rank General_(United_Kingdom).
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) serviceyears "1915".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) shortDescription "British Army general".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) title List_of_Permanent_Representatives_of_the_United_Kingdom_to_NATO.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) title List_of_Royal_Military_College_of_Canada_people.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) title List_of_senior_officers_of_the_British_Army.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) unit Royal_Engineers.
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) years "1947".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) years "1949".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) years "1953".
- John_Whiteley_(British_Army_officer) description "British Army general".
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