High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lieutenant General Sir Humfrey Myddelton Gale KBE, CB, CVO, MC (4 October 1890 – 8 April 1971) was an officer in the British Army who served in the First World War and Second World War, during which he was Chief Administrative Officer at Allied Forces Headquarters and later SHAEF under General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower. After the Second World War he was European Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, worked for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and was chairman of the Basildon, Essex New Town Development Corporation