Alexander Beville Gibbons Stanier

Alexander Beville Gibbons Stanier
Birth name	Alexander Stanier
Born	31 January 1899 Shropshire
Died	10 January 1995(1995-01-10) (aged 95)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1917–1948
Rank	Brigadier
Unit	Welsh Guards
Commands held	2nd Battalion, Welsh Guards 223rd Independent Infantry Brigade 3rd Parachute Brigade 183rd Infantry Brigade 231st Infantry Brigade
Battles/wars	World War I Western Front World War II Battle of Boulogne Operation Overlord Operation Perch Operation Market Garden
Awards	Distinguished Service Order (22 October 1940) & Bar (29 March 1945) Military Cross (1 April 1919) Commander of the Order of Leopold II (Belgium; 1948) Croix de Guerre with Palm (Belgium; 1948) Silver Star (United States; 20 June 1944) Legion of Honour (France; 1988)

World War I

World War II

Brigadier Sir Alexander Beville Gibbons Stanier, 2nd Baronet of Peplow Hall DSO & Bar, MC (31 January 1899 – 10 January 1995) was a British Army officer who fought in World War I and World War II, particularly distinguished for his actions at Boulogne in 1940, on D-Day in 1944, and in the Rhineland in 1944.

Stanier was born on 31 January 1899, the eldest son of Beville Stanier of Peplow Hall in Shropshire. His father was elected Member of Parliament for Newport, Shropshire, in 1908, and was created a Baronet by David Lloyd George in 1917 for organising Sugar beet production during the Great War. In that year, his son Alexander, who had been educated at Eton, passed through the Royal Military College at Sandhurst as a wartime cadet and was commissioned into the newly raised Welsh Guards on 21 December.

In his year with the 1st Battalion of the Welsh Guards on the Western Front, Stanier displayed aptitude for the mobile warfare that followed the crumbling of the German defences. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) (dated 2 April 1919) for his actions during the Second Battle of Cambrai, a month before the Armistice. His citation reads as follows:

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