Guy Simonds

Guy Granville Simonds
Born	April 23, 1903 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Died	May 15, 1974 (aged 71) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Buried at	Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Allegiance	Canada
Service/branch	Canadian Army
Years of service	1926–1960
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Unit	Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
Commands held	1st Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade 2nd Canadian Infantry Division 1st Canadian Infantry Division 5th Canadian Armoured Division II Canadian Corps Chief of the General Staff
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Companion of the Order of Canada Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Canadian Forces Decoration Order Virtuti Militari (Silver Cross) Legion of Merit (Commander) Legion of Honour (Commander) Order of Orange-Nassau (Commander) Order of Leopold (Commander)

Lieutenant-General Guy Granville Simonds CC, CB, CBE, DSO, CD (April 23, 1903 – May 15, 1974) was a senior Canadian Army officer who served with distinction during World War II, where he commanded the 1st Canadian Infantry Division and II Canadian Corps. In 1951, at the age of just 48, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff, the most senior member of the Canadian Army, a post he held for four years.

Guy was born in Ixworth, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England on April 24, 1903.

Simonds came from a military family: his great-grandfather had been in the army of the Honourable East India Company, his grandfather had been a major-general in the British Indian Army and his father an officer in the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery. The Simonds family was related to Ivor Maxse and Lord Milner. On his maternal side, his grandfather William Easton was a wealthy Virginian horse breeder, who had moved to England, renting Ixworth Abbey. Eleanor "Nellie" Easton, his mother, was one of five daughters, four of whom married army officers.

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