Sidney Kirkman

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Major General Sidney Kirkman (right) talks to other officers prior to Operation Husky , the Allied invasion of Sicily (1943)

Sir Sidney Chevalier "Kirkie" Kirkman , GCB , KBE , MC & Bar (born July 29, 1895 in Bedford , Bedfordshire ; † November 5, 1982 in Southampton , Hampshire ) was a British general in the British Army , who last served as Quartermaster General between 1947 and 1950 Army was.

Life

Sidney Chevalier "Kirkie" Kirkman, son of Judge John P. Kirkman, began an officer training at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich after attending the Bedford School, which was founded in 1552 . Once finished, he was in 1915 as a lieutenant (Second Lieutenant) in the Royal Field Artillery taken and was for his service during World War I on the Western Front with the Military Cross awarded (MC). In the following period he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1916 and served in the further course of the war in the mountain war in Italy , where he was awarded a clasp (bar) for the Military Cross. After the war, other uses as an officer and in 1925 followed his promotion to captain (Captain) . He was a graduate of Staff College Camberley between 1931 and 1932 and was promoted to major in 1935 .

During the Second World War, Kirkman was from 1940 to 1941, first commander ( Commanding Officer ) of the 65th (Highland) Regiment medium . In 1941 he became commander of the artillery troops of the I. Corps ( I Corps ) and then briefly commander of the artillery troops of the VII. Corps ( VII Corps ) and received the designation Temporary Brigadier on September 23, 1941 . In the further course of the war he was from 1941 to 1942 commander of the artillery troops of the XII. Corps ( XII Corps ) and then first commander of the artillery troops of the 56th Division ( 56th Division ) and then commander of the artillery troops of the Army Command Southeast (South Eastern Command) . He then acted 1942 and 1943 as commander of the artillery troops in North Africa used Eighth Army ( Eighth Army ) and took over after April 14, 1943 to January 19, 1944 the post of Commanding General ( General Officer Commanding ) in North Africa and later in Sicily used the 50th Division ( 50th Division ) .

Then was Lieutenant General (Lieutenant General) Sidney Kirkman between January 1944 and March 1945 commanding general of the XIII used in Italy. Corps ( XIII Corps ) and then from March to June 1945 General Officer Commanding in Chief Southern Command , before he was Commanding General of the I Corps ( I Corps ) stationed in Germany between May and September 1945 . On July 5, 1945 he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and has since had the suffix "Sir". He then acted from September 24, 1945 to May 1947 as Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff and was thus the closest collaborator and representative of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff , Field Marshal Alan Brooke and, from 1946, of his successor, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery .

Last sparked General Kirkman in June 1947 War Department ( War Office ) General Daril Watson as Quartermaster General of the Army (Quartermaster-General to the Forces) , and had that top military post until his retirement from active military service in June 1950 held, after which General Gwilym Ivor Thomas succeeded him there. On June 9, 1949 he was also made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) and on January 1, 1951 to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB). In 1954 he replaced the previous Director-General of Civil Defense Training , Wing Commander John Hodsoll, and was responsible for civil defense as Director-General of Civil Defense until 1960. He was then replaced by Lieutenant General William Henry Stratton , who carried the title of Inspector General of Civil Defense .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 238
  2. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 199
  3. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 105
  4. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 196
  5. ↑ a b KNIGHTS AND DAMES. In: leighrayment.com. November 2, 2018, accessed September 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 17
  7. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 9
predecessor Office successor
General Daril Watson Quartermaster General of the Army
1947–1950 		General Gwilym Ivor Thomas
personal data
SURNAME Kirkman, Sidney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirkman, Sidney Chevalier (full name); Kirkie (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British general
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedford , Bedfordshire
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1982
Place of death Southampton , Hampshire