Major General Davidson, the first of our 'Two Generals' died on 15 January 1973 at his home at 82 Chelsea Park Gardens, London.  Happily, he lived long enough to witness the gradual ascendency of the Corps he had fought so long and hard to preserve and nuture.  And perhaps it is no concidence that his eldest sond, Donald Leybourne Hugo Davidson, served in the Intelligence Corps in teh late 1940s, with 91 Field Security Section, British Troops Austra.

In 1985, the second of our 'Two Generals' was a 22 year old graduate of the University of York, newly promoted to lieutenant having completed his degree in politics on a university cadetship as a probationary second lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps.  That youn subaltern would go on to smash what was left of the Corps' glass ceiling and justify General Davidson's long-held belief, that the officers of the Intelligence Corps were second to none and could competed for the most senior positions in the British Army.

(To be continued in Part Two).