Brian Kimmins

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Brian Charles Hannam Kimmins , KBE , CB , DL (born July 30, 1899 in Hendon , Middlesex , † November 15, 1979 in Taunton , Somerset ) was a British Lieutenant General in the British Army , who was last in command of the Army between 1955 and 1958 was in Northern Ireland .

Life

Military career, World War I and World War II

Brian Charles Hannam Kimmins, son of psychologists Charles William Kimmins and writer Grace Kimmins and older brother of actor, film director, writer, playwright, screenwriter and film producer Anthony Kimmins , completed after school officer training and was on 28 September 1917 as a lieutenant of the Royal Artillery accepted into the British Army . As such, he took part in the First World War.

In the following years he found numerous uses as an officer and staff officer and was after the beginning of the Second World War between 1940 and 1941 an instructor at Staff College Camberley and then briefly first general staff officer of an association. After the provisional rank of the Dec. 7, 1947 Brigadier General (Acting Brigadier) had received, he served from 7 December 1941 to 15 May 1942 as deputy head of the department Military training at the War Office (Deputy Director of Military Training, War Office ) and then between May 15 and November 1942 as Brigadier General Staff, Southern Command . In the further course of the Second World War he was from 1942 to 1943 commander of the artillery units of the Guard Armored Division (Commander Royal Artillery Guards Armored Division) and then between 1944 and 1945 head of the planning department of the SEAC ( South East Asia Command ) . For his services he became Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on June 8, 1944 .

Post War, Northern Ireland Commander and Honorary Holdings

At the end of the Second World War Brigadier General Kimmins became Assistant Chief of Staff of the South East Asia Command on April 7, 1945 and remained in this position until May 31, 1946. In 1946 he was also Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) and received on April 1, 1946 the temporary rank of major General (temporary major-General) . On November 18, 1946, he took over the post of Chief of Staff at the Headquarters for Combined Operations COHQ ( Combined Operations Headquarters ) and after his return between June 1947 and April 1950 as Director of Quartering in the War Office (Director of Quartering, War Office) . He then served between July 1950 and March 1952 as the Commanding General ( General Officer Commanding ) of the 44th Home Counties Division and as District Officer Commanding Home Counties District . Subsequently, between March 1952 and March 1955, he held the post of Head of the Territorial Army and Cadets Department in the War Office (Director of Territorial Army & Cadets, War Office) . On April 17, 1955, he replaced Lieutenant General Edmond Schreiber as Colonel Commandant of the Royal Regiment of Artillery .

Last took Brian Kimmins as Lieutenant General (Lieutenant General) in July 1955, the function as Commanding General of the Military District Northern Ireland (General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District) . He held this post until his retirement in July 1958 and was then replaced by Lieutenant General Douglas Packard . During this time he was beaten on January 2, 1956 to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir".

In 1929 he married Marjory Johnston, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel WJ Johnston. On March 12, 1962, he renounced the appointment of Colonel Honor of the 327th Battalion of the Women's Royal Army Corps of the Territorial Army . He was Colonel Commandant of the Royal Regiment of Artillery until July 30, 1964 and was then replaced by Lieutenant General Geoffrey Harding Baker . He was further on Nov. 16, 1965 Sheriff of the County of Somerset . On March 31, 1967, he resigned his post as Colonel of Honor of the 250th (Queen's Own Dorset and West Somerset Yeomanry) Medium Regiment . Most recently he was also Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Somerset on July 1, 1968 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette : No. 30310, p. 9994 , September 25, 1917.
  2. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 102
  3. ^ The London Gazette : No. 36544, p. 2574 , June 2, 1944.
  4. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 52
  5. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 214
  6. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 18
  7. ^ The London Gazette : 40456, 2264 , April 15, 1955.
  8. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 107
  9. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  10. ^ The London Gazette : No. 42637, p. 2729 , March 30, 1962.
  11. ^ The London Gazette : 43396, 6495 , July 31, 1964.
  12. ^ The London Gazette : No. 43816, p. 10664 , November 16, 1965.
  13. ^ The London Gazette : No. 44283, p. 3808 , April 4, 1967.
  14. ^ The London Gazette : No. 44630, p. 7607 , July 9, 1968
personal data
SURNAME Kimmins, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kimmins, Brian Charles Hannam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hendon , Middlesex
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1979
Place of death Taunton , Somerset