Rob Lockhart

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Rob McGregor Macdonald Lockhart , KCB , CIE , MC (born June 23, 1893 in Beith , North Ayrshire , Scotland ; † September 11, 1981 ) was a British Lieutenant General in the British Army , who was, among other things, acting governor of the north-west provinces there in 1947 and after the Independence of India on August 15, 1947 was the first commander in chief of the armed forces of India .

Life

Military career, World War I and World War II

Rob McGregor Macdonald Lockhart, son of Bruce Lockhart and his wife Florence Stuart Macgregor, was a younger brother of the diplomat R. H. Bruce Lockhart and the cricketer John Bruce Lockhart. He graduated after school attendance officer training at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was after its completion on 22 January 1913 as a lieutenant (Second Lieutenant) in the Indian British Army adopted. For his services in World War I , he was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in 1918 . After the end of the war, he found various uses as an officer and after attending Staff College Camberley from 1926 to 1927 as an officer and staff officer. From 1934 to 1935 he was a military attaché at the embassy in Afghanistan and after further assignments in 1939 he was deputy director of the staff services of the troops in British India .

After the start of the Second World War , Rob Lockhart acted as Brigadier General (Brigadier) between December 20, 1939 and September 1941 as Director of Staff Duties, Army Headquarters India . During this time, on 28 April 1941, the rank of Acting, he was Major General (Acting Major General) awarded. Then he held from December 1941 to July 1945 the post of Military Secretary of the Ministry of India (Military Secretary, India Office ) , and thus responsible Indian British for the recruitment of soldiers for the army. Due to his services in this function, he became Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1942 and Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1944 . In addition, he was between May 8, 1944 and April 1945, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the British Indian Army (Deputy Chief General Staff, Army Headquarters India) .

Governor of the North West Provinces and Commander in Chief in India

After Lockhart was awarded the acting rank of Lieutenant General (Acting Lieutenant-General) on April 15, 1945 , he was the successor to Lieutenant General Noel Beresford-Peirse from April 1945 to June 1947 Commander in Chief of the South Command of the British Indian Army (General Officer Commanding- in-Chief Southern Command) . On June 13, 1946 he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) and has since had the addition of "Sir". As the successor to Olaf Caroe , he acted from June 26 until his replacement by George Cunningham on August 13, 1947 as acting governor of the northwestern provinces

After India gained independence on August 15, 1947, Lieutenant General Sir Rob Lockhart was first Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of India and held this position until December 31, 1947, whereupon General Roy Bucher succeeded him on January 1, 1948. He himself left active military service and retired. In 1951 he was recalled to active military service and was first director of operations and then between 1952 and 1953 deputy director of operations during the so-called "Malayan Emergency" (Darurat Malaya) , a guerrilla war that lasted from June 16, 1948 to July 12, 1960 between the Commonwealth of Nations and the Malay Races Liberation Army MRLA (Malayan Races Liberation Army) in the Malaya Federation . In 1953 he finally retired.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 319
  2. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 325
  3. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 317
  4. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 357
  5. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  6. ^ North-West Frontier Province: Governors in Rulers
personal data
SURNAME Lockhart, Rob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lockhart, Rob McGregor Macdonald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Lieutenant General and Governor
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Beith , North Ayrshire , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1981