 In December 1943 Jervis @-@ Read was replaced by Colonel Noel Wild , who reorganised Ops ( B ) . Jervis @-@ Read was made head of the Operations section as his deputy . Following the Allied invasion of France , he became Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff at SHAEF . In 1945 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) , the citation recognised his work with Ops ( B ) and in France . He retired from the army in 1963 , having attained the rank of brigadier . 
