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        Born 1887; educated at Rugby School and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; served in Royal Field Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery in UK and India, 1906-1914; Lt, 1909; Capt, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; acting Maj, 1916-1917; Bde Maj Royal Artillery, 17 Div, 1917-1919; Maj, 1917; awarded DSO, 1918; Bde Maj, School of Artillery, 1924-1925; General Staff Officer 2, Staff College, Camberley, 1926-1929; Brevet Lt Col, 1928; service on North West Frontier, India, 1930-1931; awarded Bar to DSO, 1931; Military Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence, 1933-1935; Lt Col, 1935; Deputy Secretary, 1936; awarded CB, 1936; Brig, 1936; Commandant, School of Artillery, Larkhill, Wiltshire, 1936-1938; Maj Gen, 1938; Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, War Office, 1938-1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Chief of General Staff, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), France, 1939-1940; created KBE, 1940; Inspector General of the Local Defence Volunteer Force (later the Home Guard), 1940; Commander-in-Chief, British Forces in Northern Ireland, 1940-1941; Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office, 1941; Commander-in-Chief Far East, 1941-1942; Lt Gen, 1942; Chief of Staff, ABDA (American, British, Dutch, Australian) Command, Far East, 1942; General Officer Commanding Ceylon, 1942-1943; Col Commandant Royal Artillery, 1942-1952; Commander-in-Chief Persia-Iraq, 1943; Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, 1943-1944; retired 1945; created KCB, 1945; Chairman, Friary Meux Limited; Member of the Committee of Lloyds Bank; Chief Commissioner, St John Ambulance Bde, 1947-1949; military consultant to Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill on the History of the Second World War (Cassell, London, 1948-1954); Chancellor, Order of St John, 1951; died 1961.

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