the honorary capacity of Colonel Commandant of the Indian Signal Corps between March 1946 and October 1948. Pakistan When British India was partitioned in 1947 Gracey became Chief of Staff in the newly created GHQ, Pakistan before succeeding Frank Messervy as the Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army in 1948. When the Pakistani tribal invasion of Kashmir began on 22 October 1947, Messervy was away in London, and Gracey was acting as the Army Chief. He declined to send Pakistani troops to the Kashmir front as ordered by Mohammad Ali Jinnah (the Governor General) but referred the issue to Claude Auchinleck, the Supreme Commander of Indian and Pakistani forces. Both the armies were under joint British command at this stage, and Auchinleck had already issued Standdown instructions to the effect that all British officers would stand down in the event of a military conflict between the two countries. After hearing Auchinleck's reasoning, Jinnah rescinded his order. Gracey left the Pakistan Army in April 1951 to retire, having attained the rank of full general. However, his permanent rank in the British Army had never advanced beyond major general so on retirement he was granted the honorary rank of general having also had his CB promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in January 1951 at the request of the Pakistan government. Final years After his retirement Gracey settled in Surrey. He was a keen cricketer and a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and served as Chairman of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables at Putney in the years before his death, which occurred on 5 June 1964, at the age of 69. Army career summary Commissioned into 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment) (1915) Brigadier General Staff Western Command, India - 1938 Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles - 1939 to 1940 Assistant Commandant of Staff College Quetta, India - 1940 to 1941 Commanding Officer 17th Indian Brigade, Iraq and Syria - 1941 to 1942 General Officer Commanding 20th Indian Division, Burma - 1942 to 1946 Commander in Chief Allied Land Forces French Indochina - 1945 to 1946 General Officer Commander in Chief Northern Command, India -1946 General Officer Commanding Indian I Corps - 1946 to 1947 Chief of Staff, Pakistan Army - 1947 to 1948 Commander in Chief Pakistan Army - 1948 to 1951 Retired with honorary