Holt-Wilson , Sir , Eric Edward Boketon , 1875-1950 , Knight , Brigadier

Born, 1875; educated Harrow and Royal Military Academy Woolwich; commissioned as Second Lieutenant, 1895; posted to South Africa with the 7 Field Regiment, Royal Engineers, 1899-1902; Instructor, School of Military Engineering, 1903-1906; Cadet Company Commander and Instructor in Military Engineering, Woolwich Royal Military Academy, 1909-1912; Imperial Security Intelligence Service, 1912-1940; Inter-Allied Intelligence Bureau, Paris, 1915; Lieutenant Colonel, 1917; Chief of Civil Police Commission, British Occupied Rhineland, 1919; Joint Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Committee on War and Emergency Legislation, Committee of Imperial Defence, 1924-1938; Deputy Commandant, War Department Constabulary, 1927-1942; British Delegate for Navy, Army and Air Force, International Convention on Treatment of Prisoners, Geneva, 1929; Visiting Lecturer, Staff College Camberley, 1921-1939; Second in Command, MI5, 1931-1940; Honorary Brigadier, 1939; retired, 1940; died, 1950.