Edmond Schreiber

Lieutenant-General Sir Edmund Charles Acton Schreiber, KCB, DSO (30 April 1890 – 8 October 1978) was a British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars. In the second he commanded the 45th Infantry Division, V Corps and First Army.

Military career
Born the son of the late Brigadier General Acton L. Schreiber CB CMG DSO, Edmond Schreiber was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery becoming a Lieutenant in 1912. He served in World War I on the Western Front, earning the DSO, being mentioned in despatches and ending the war as a brevet major. In the 1930s, he served at the Staff College, Camberley, the War Office and the Senior Officers' School, Sheerness and was Brigadier Royal Artillery in Southern Command.

Schreiber served in the British Expeditionary Force in France between 1939 and 1940. He commanded 61st Infantry Division in 1940, 45th Infantry Division later in 1940 and 4th Division in 1941 before being promoted to take command of V Corps later that year. In 1942 he was appointed to command First Army which was to be the parent organisation for Allied forces in Tunisia after Operation Torch; however, he developed a kidney problem and became unfit for active service.

Restricted to non-field roles, he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Western Command in 1942 and of South Eastern Command in 1944. Between 1944 and 1946, Schreiber was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta. He retired in 1947.

Schreiber became a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John in 1944.

Retirement
He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1948 and National President of the Old Contemptibles Association in 1960.

Family
Edmond Schreiber married Phyllis Barchard in 1916; there were two daughters.