Kenneth Hole

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Kenneth Morley hole , KCIE , CB , MC (* 19th September 1890 ; † 9. January 1961 ) was a British lieutenant general of the British Army , among other last 1944-1947 Deputy Master General of Ordnance of the British Indian Army was .

Life

Major General Kenneth Morley (center in light uniform) with Prime Minister Winston Churchill (second from left) during an anti-aircraft exercise (1941)

Kenneth Morley Loch, son of Lieutenant Colonel William Loch and his wife Edith Mary Gibbs, completed officer training at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich after attending Wellington College . For his military services in the First World War in the Battle of the Marne (September 5 to 12, 1914) and the subsequent Battle of the Aisne (September 12 to 20, 1914) and later in the mountain war on the Italian front , he was included in the war report mentioned ( Mentioned in dispatches ) and awarded the Military Cross (MC). After attending Staff College Camberley from 1923 to 1924, he found numerous uses as an officer and staff officer. He was seconded to the Royal Air Force (RAF) between 1936 and 1938 and was during this time First General Staff Officer in the Fighter Command RAF and then from 25 November 1938 to 1941 head of the Air Defense and Coastal Defense Department in the War Department (Director of Anti- Aircraft & Coast Defense, War Office ) . In this use, it was at the beginning of World War II Acting on November 25, 1939 Major General (Acting Major-General) and received a year later on November 25, 1940 temporary rank of Major General (Temporary Major-General) .

Major General Loch was in special use between 1941 and 1944 and became Companion of the CB in 1942 . He then acted from May 29, 1944 to India's independence on August 15, 1947 as Deputy Master-General of Ordnance at the headquarters of the British Indian Army (Army Headquarters India) . He was responsible for artillery, engineering troops, fortifications, military supplies, transportation and field hospitals in British India . In this use he was given the temporary rank of Lieutenant General (Temporary Lieutenant-General) on May 29, 1945 . On June 13, 1946 he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) and has since had the suffix "Sir". In 1947 he retired.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 317
  2. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
personal data
SURNAME Loch, Kenneth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loch, Kenneth Morley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1890
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1961