Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Harold Alexander, and also Winston Churchill), Neame found there was no job waiting for him in the Army, with his star in the descendent after the debacle of his capture in 1941, but he remained on the Active List until the end of the war in his substantive rank of major-general. Postwar military career and retirement In August 1945 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in the local rank of lieutenant-general where he served until 1953. He also held the honorary posts of Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Royal Engineers from February 1945 to 1955 and Colonel 131 (Airborne) Engineer Regiment from January 1948. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 1946, and made a knight of the charitable Order of St John in the same year. In January 1955 Neame was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Kent. Personal life Neame married Harriet Drew (1906–1994) in 1934, the marriage producing four children: Gerald (b.1935), Veronica (b.1937), Nigel (b.1946), Philip (b.1946). His youngest child, also named Philip, served as commander of D Company, 2 Para, in 1982 during the Falklands War. Neame died at Selling in Kent, on 28 April 1978 in his 90th year. His body was buried in the graveyard of St Mary the Virgin Church, in Selling. His medals and awards are held by the Imperial War Museum in London. References Notes Footnotes Bibliography External links Royal Engineers Museum Sappers VCs Location of grave (Kent) Philip NEAME of Cheltenham College Imperial War Museum Interview British Army Officers 1939–1945 Generals of World War II |- |- |- |- 1888 births 1978 deaths Burials in Kent Commandants of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich People from Faversham People educated at Cheltenham College British male sport shooters Running target shooters Olympic shooters of Great Britain Shooters at the 1924 Summer Olympics English Olympic medallists Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Royal Engineers officers British Army personnel of World War I British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross British Army generals of World War II British World War II prisoners of war World War II prisoners of war held by Italy British escapees Escapees from Italian detention Companions of the Order of the Bath Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Knights of Grace of the Order of St John Companions