Maurice Arthur Pope

Maurice Arthur Pope , CB , MC (born August 9, 1889 in Rivière-du-Loup , Québec ; † September 20, 1978 in Ottawa , Ontario ) was a Canadian engineer, officer and diplomat , who last served as lieutenant general between 1945 and 1950 head the Canadian military mission was in Berlin . He was then ambassador to Belgium from 1950 to 1953 and, at the same time, to Luxembourgas well as ambassador to Spain between 1953 and 1956 .

Life

Engineer, World War I and Post War

Maurice Arthur Pope, son of civil servant Joseph Pope, was a maternal grandson of Henri-Thomas Taschereau , who was a member of the House of Commons between 1872 and 1878 , and of the politician William Henry Pope , who is considered one of the Confederations . After attending school, he himself began studying engineering at McGill University , from which he graduated in 1911 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Engineering). He then worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway as a civil engineer and began his military service as an officer with the Royal Canadian Engineers after the First World War began in 1915 . He was used in the Expeditionary Force ( Canadian Expeditionary Force ) on the Western Front in France . For his services there he was awarded the Military Cross (MC) on February 4, 1918 as first lieutenant .

After the end of the First World War, Pope remained in the army and found numerous uses as an officer and staff officer in the following years. He was among other things from January 1, 1935 to August 14, 1938 General Staff Officer of the First Degree at the Headquarters for National Defense and as such was awarded the Brevet rank of Lieutenant Colonel on July 15, 1935 . After his promotion to colonel on August 15, 1938, he became acting director for military operations and intelligence there and held this position until December 11, 1938. At the same time, between August 15, 1938 and October 15, 1939, he was also secretary of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff.

Second World War and post as ambassador

After the outbreak of World War II , Maurice Arthur Pope served as Director of Military Operations and Intelligence at the National Defense Headquarters between October 15, 1939 and May 12, 1940. He was then transferred to the United Kingdom , where he was initially a colonel from June 1 to July 26, 1940, and then between July 27, 1940 and February 19, 1941, Brigadier General in the General Staff of the Canadian Military Headquarters in London . After his return he held the post of Assistant Chief of the Army General Staff at the Headquarters for National Defense from March 13 to December 23, 1941. After he was promoted to major general on December 24, 1941 , he served there between December 24, 1941 and February 14, 1942 as Vice-Chief of the Army General Staff . He was then from March 6, 1942 to September 1944 head of the Canadian Military Mission in the United States in Washington, DC and was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) on January 1, 1944 during this time . He then served between September 5, 1944 and October 1945 as a military assistant to the Prime Minister list of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King .

After the war, Pope was promoted to lieutenant general on October 12, 1945 and served as head of the military mission in Berlin from October 12, 1945 to December 15, 1949 . Subsequently, he was the first between 3 August 1950 and 26 November 1953 Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Belgium at the same time and, as such, as ambassador to Luxembourg accredited . He then acted from October 12, 1953 to December 10, 1956 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium and Spain Maurice Arthur Pope was retired on March 20, 1956 and lived in Ottawa.

Publications

• Public servant. The memoirs of Sir Joseph Pope , Oxford University Press, 1960.
• Soldiers and politicians. The memoirs of Lt.-Gen. Maurice A. Pope CB, MC , University of Toronto Press, 1962.

Web links

• Entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia (online version)
• Maurice Arthur Pope on the Foreign Ministry homepage (archive version) =
• Entry in generals.dk

Individual evidence

1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 30507, HMSO, London, February 1, 1918, p. 1607 ( PDF , accessed January 18, 2019, English).
2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 36310, HMSO, London, December 31, 1943, p. 49 ( PDF , accessed January 18, 2019, English).
3. ↑ BELGIQUE: List of the Chefs de Mission (archive version )
4. ↑ ESPAGNE: List of the Chefs de Mission (archive version )

predecessor	Office	successor
Victor Doré	Canadian Ambassador to Belgium August 3, 1950 to November 26, 1953	Charles Pierre Hébert
	Canadian Ambassador to Spain October 12, 1953 to December 10, 1956	Léon Mayrand