Background
Allfrey was born on 24 October 1895 in Southam, Northamptonshire, the son of Captain Henry Allfrey of the 60th Rifles and Kathleen Hankey.
lieutenant army officer commander Central Bank
Allfrey was born on 24 October 1895 in Southam, Northamptonshire, the son of Captain Henry Allfrey of the 60th Rifles and Kathleen Hankey.
Between the World Wars Allfrey attended Staff College, Camberley after which he was seconded to the Colonial Office and seconded to the Iraqi Army in November 1930.
He joined the British Army in August 1914 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in October 1914. Promoted to lieutenant on 9 June 1915, during the First World War he was wounded twice. He was promoted to the acting rank of captain on 5 January 1917, and was promoted to the substantive rank on 3 November 1917.
He was promoted to acting major on 17 December 1917 and reverted to his permanent rank of captain on 18 February 1919.
He was brevetted to major on 1 January 1931 and promoted to the substantive rank on 10 August 1933. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel on 1 January 1935 and promoted to the substantive rank of colonel on 6 August 1939.
At the start of the Second World War Allfrey had just been promoted full colonel and held a senior staff job in the United Kingdom, continuing in this role in France and Belgium with the British Expeditionary Force. In February 1940 he returned to the United Kingdom to take up the post of Corps Commander Royal Artillery at II Corps in the rank of brigadier.
On 19 July 1940, after a brief spell as CCRA at IV Corps, he was promoted to acting major-general to command Southwestern Area, Home Forces.
In February 1941, he received command of the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division. He was promoted to temporary major-general on 19 July 1941. On 9 March 1942, Allfrey was promoted to acting lieutenant-general to take command of V Corps.
Foreign nearly two and a half years he commanded V Corps in Operation Torch, the Tunisia Campaign.
In particular his Corps holding off the last Axis attack - Operation Ochsenkopf in Spring 1943. On 9 March 1943, he was promoted to the war substantive rank of major-general and to the temporary rank of lieutenant-general.
He then went on to serve in the Italian Campaign and in August, he was made Companion of the Bath (Central Bank) for his service in Tunisia. His rank of major-general was made substantive on 6 November.
In August 1944 he was rested from field command to become General Officer Commanding, British Troops in Egypt.
During his tenure, he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), and his rank of lieutenant-general was made substantive (23 November 1946). Egypt was his last posting and he retired from the army as a lieutenant-general in June 1948. Allfrey died on 2 November 1964 in Bristol.