Reg Pollard (general), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
About Reg Pollard (general)
- Lieutenant General Sir Reginald George Pollard, (20 January 1903 – 9 March 1978) was a senior commander in the Australian Army.
- He served as Chief of the General Staff from 1960 to 1963. Born in Bathurst, New South Wales, Pollard graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1924.
- A regular officer, he served as adjutant/quartermaster in several battalions of the Citizens Military Forces (CMF) during the 1920s and 1930s.
- In 1938, he was posted to England to undertake staff training, which was cut short by the outbreak of the Second World War.
- Pollard joined the Second Australian Imperial Force in 1940, and the following year saw action with the 7th Division in the Middle East, where he was mentioned in despatches.
- Promoted to colonel in 1942, he became senior staff officer of the 7th Division in New Guinea, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his actions.
- He spent much of the remainder of the war in staff and training positions in Australia. Pollard's early post-war roles involved recruit training, land/air warfare, administration, and planning.
- In 1953, he was promoted to brigadier and took command of the Australian Army Component of the British Commonwealth Forces Korea.
- He joined the Military Board as a major general in 1954, and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire the following year.
- In 1957 he was promoted to lieutenant general and took charge of Eastern Command in Sydney; two years later he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
- Knighted in 1961, as Chief of the General Staff he presided over the Army's reorganisation as a pentropic structure, and worked towards making Duntroon a degree-granting institution.
- In 1962, he oversaw deployment of the first team of Australian military advisors to South Vietnam.
- After retiring from the military in 1963, Pollard became Honorary Colonel of the Royal Australian Regiment; he served as Australian Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II during the Royal Visit in 1970 and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order the same year.
- He died at Wyrallah, New South Wales, in 1978.
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