Ronald Forbes Adam

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Sir Ronald Forbes "Bill" Adam, 2nd Baronet , GCB , DSO , OBE (born October 30, 1885 , † December 26, 1982 ) was a British general in the British Army who, among other things, between 1937 and 1938 was in command of Staff College Camberley , from 1938 to 1939 Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, from 1939 to 1940 Commanding General of the III. Corps, commanding general of the North Command from 1940 to 1941 and most recently adjutant general of the armed forces between 1941 and 1946. After his retirement, Adam got involved in various organizations, particularly those promoting education and science.

Life

Family, officer and time until World War II

Adam was the eldest son of bank manager Frank Forbes Adam , who was President of the Bank of Bombay and was raised to Baronet , of Hankelow Court, in the County of Sussex, on February 15, 1917 , and his wife, Rose Frances Kemball. His younger brother Eric Forbes Adam was a cricketer and diplomat , while his youngest brother Colin Forbes Adam was Deputy Lieutenant of Kingston upon Hull for several years . His only sister Hetty Reay Clifford Forbes Adam was for her services as a secretary of the Women's Land Army of the county of West Sussex on May 28, 1943 Member of the Order of the British Empire appointed (MBE).

After attending the prestigious Eton College, Adam himself completed military training at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich and was promoted to lieutenant in the Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery on July 27, 1905 . During the First World War he served as an officer in the British Army in France , Flanders and Italy . For his military services he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) on June 3, 1918 . He completed the course at Staff College Camberley from 1920 to 1921 . After his promotion to the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) on 1 January 1923, he was an instructor at the Staff College and received at the end of this use, the retroactive promotion to Major . After the death of his father, he inherited the title of 2nd Baronet Adam, of Hankelow Court, in the County of Sussex on December 22, 1926 . On July 1, 1927, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. As such, he was between 19 January 1927, the January 18, 1931 General Staff Officer Second degree in War Department ( War Office ) .

After his promotion to colonel on October 9, 1932, Adam was again an instructor at Staff College Camberley and remained in this position until January 18, 1935. He was then between January 19, 1935 and September 30, 1936 First Degree General Staff Officer in the War Department . He was then promoted to the temporary rank of Brigadier General (Temporary Brigadier) on October 1, 1936 , and as such took over the post of Deputy Head of the Department of Military Operations in the War Ministry until November 13, 1936.

Subsequently, on November 14, 1934, Adam became commander of the artillery units (Commander Royal Artillery) of the 1st Infantry Division commanded by Major General Clement Armitage . After his promotion to the temporary rank of Major General (Temporary Major-General) on September 24, 1937 he succeeded Major General John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort Commander of Staff College Camberley and remained in this post until his replacement by Major General Bernard Paget on January 2, 1938. During this time he was on 18 December 1937 major General (major-General) promoted. Subsequently, on January 3, 1938, he was awarded the temporary rank of Lieutenant General (Temporary Lieutenant-General) and until his replacement by Major General Hugh Massy on October 24, 1939, he served as Deputy Chief Imperial General Staff. , where he was promoted to lieutenant general on October 24, 1938 . As such, he was one of the closest collaborators of General John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, who had been Chief of the Imperial General Staff since 1937 . On January 2, 1939, he became Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).

World War II and post-war period

After the beginning of the Second World War Adam was on October 25, 1939 Commanding General ( General Officer Commanding ) of the newly established III. Corps with which he took part in the Battle of Dunkirk from May 26 to June 5, 1940 . On June 7, 1940, he was replaced by Lieutenant General James Marshall-Cornwall and was himself in turn on June 8, 1940 successor to Lieutenant General William Bartholomew as General Officer Commanding in Chief of the Northern Command belonging to the Home Forces . He remained in this post until June 2, 1941, when he was replaced by Lieutenant General Ralph Eastwood .

Adam himself was born on June 3, 1941 successor Lieutenant General Colville Wemyss Adjutant General of the Armed Forces (Adjutant General to the Forces) and took one of the oldest traditional offices of the British army, which was already created 1763rd He was also the second highest military representative in the Army Board after the Chief of the Imperial General Staff . He held the post of Adjutant General until his replacement by Lieutenant General Richard O'Connor on June 16, 1946 and was promoted to General on April 12, 1942 . At the same time he acted in personal union from September 1940 to September 1950 both as Commanding Colonel (Colonel Commandant) of the Royal Artillery and the Army Educational Corps (AEC) and between December 12, 1945 and October 4, 1951 as Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Dental Corps (RADC). On July 1, 1941, he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) and has since had the addition of "Sir".

On December 5, 1941 Adam was also a member of the Army Council , which he belonged to July 15, 1946. On January 1, 1946, he was also raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB). He resigned from active military service on July 15, 1946. On November 14, 1947, he became Commander of the Legion of Merit .

After his retirement, Adam got involved in various organizations, particularly those promoting education and science. Among other things, he was President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), founded in 1787, between 1946 and 1947 , a member of the Miners Welfare Commission from 1946 to 1952, and Chairman and Director General of the British Council between 1946 and 1952 . He was also President of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology from 1947 to 1952, from 1948 to 1967 a member of the Council of the Pedagogical Institute of the University of London and in 1949 President of the Library Association. In addition, he was President of the National Institute of Adult Education between 1949 and 1964, and from 1950 to 1954 a member of the Executive Council of UNESCO , of which he was chairman between 1952 and 1954. He also acted as the successor to Wilfred Griffin Eady from 1956 to 1961 as principal of the Working Men's College founded in 1854 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 36035, HMSO, London, May 28, 1943, p. 2494 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 30718, HMSO, London, June 3, 1918, p. 6494 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 34585, HMSO, London, January 2, 1939, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  4. ↑ Successor as Commanding Colonel of the Royal Artillery was Lieutenant General Eric Garden Robert Mansergh . In: London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 39036, HMSO, London, October 10, 1950, p. 5013 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  5. ↑ The AEC was renamed the Royal Army Educational Corps (RAEC) on November 28, 1946. He was succeeded as Commanding Colonel of the RAEC by General James Steele . In: London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 39022, HMSO, London, September 22, 1950, p. 4738 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  6. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 35204, HMSO, London, June 27, 1941, p. 3735 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  7. ↑ During Adam's membership, the Army Council also included: Secretary of War David Margesson (1941 to 1942), Percy James Grigg (member from 1941 to 1942, chairman 1942 to 1945) and Jack Lawson (1945) as chairman, Undersecretary of State in the War Department Henry Page Croft, 1. Baron Croft (1941 to 1945) or Harry Nathan (November 1945) as Vice-Chair, as well as Field Marshal John Dill (1941 to 1942), Field Marshal Alan Brooke (1942 to 1945), General Walter Venning (1941 to 1945) and later General Thomas Riddell-Webster (1945), Lieutenant General Archibald Nye (1941 to 1945), Colonel Ronald Morce Weeks (1942), Lieutenant Colonel Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham (1941 to 1942), Lieutenant General Sidney Kirkman (November 1945), Frederick Bellenger (November 1945), the Treasury Secretary in the War Department Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley (1942 to 1945) and later Maurice Petherick (1945), Duncan Sandys (1941 to 1945), Robert John S. inclair (1941 to 1945) and the two United Permanent Undersecretaries in the War Ministry, Frederick Carl Bovenschen (1942 to 1945) and Eric Bourne Bentinck Speed (1942 to 1945) as additional members.
  8. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35414, HMSO, London, January 9, 1942, p. 193 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  9. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35435, HMSO, London, January 27, 1942, p. 445 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  10. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35511, HMSO, London, April 3, 1942, p. 1507 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  11. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35615, HMSO, London, June 30, 1942, p. 2873 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  12. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35692, HMSO, London, September 4, 1942, p. 3867 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  13. ↑ London Gazette . No. 37133, HMSO, London, June 12, 1945, p. 3138 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  14. ↑ London Gazette . No. 37238, HMSO, London, August 24, 1945, p. 4288 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  15. ↑ London Gazette . No. 37305, HMSO, London, October 11, 1945, p. 5025 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  16. ↑ London Gazette . No. 37339, HMSO, London, November 6, 1945, p. 5403 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  17. ↑ London Gazette . No. 37407, HMSO, London, January 1, 1946, p. 4 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
  18. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 38122, HMSO, London, November 14, 1947, p. 5352 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2016, English).
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Ronald Forbes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bill Adam (nickname); Adam, Sir Ronald Forbes, 2nd Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British general
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1885
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1982