George Philip Bradley Roberts

Major-General George Philip Bradley Roberts CB, DSO, MC, (1906 – 1997), better known as "Pip", was a British commander of an armoured division during the Second World War.

Military career
Roberts was born in Quetta, British India, in 1906 and was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Royal Tank Corps in 1926. He was posted to Egypt with the Royal Tanks Corps from 1928 to 1931.

Roberts was an instructor at the Tank Driving and Maintenance School at Bovington, Dorset, from 1933 to 1937. He was again posted to Egypt for 1938 and 1939. He commanded the 11th Armoured Division (the "Black Bull") in North West Europe from 1944 to 1946.

Roberts commanded the 7th Armoured Division in 1947. He then became Director of the Royal Armoured Corps and retired from the Army in September 1949. His book From the Desert to the Baltic is an account of all his wartime battles.