British Army Major General. His military service ran from 1915 until 1960 and he served in World Wars I and II. He received his education at Gresham's School, Holt, Uppingham School, Leicestershire, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1915 he was commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers during World War I and served on the Western Front with the 123rd Field Company at the first battle of Ypres and later at the Battle of the Somme. In 1917 he was sent to British India as a temporary captain with the King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners, followed by the Aden Frontier Force for operations in southern Arabia between 1917 and 1918. He commanded a company of King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners in Afghanistan and on the North West Frontier during the Third Anglo-Afghan War from 1919 to 1922. He served again with King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners at Roorkee and Rawalpindi and saw active service in Peshawar against Afridi raiders in 1930. During World War II he was assigned to the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1939 before becoming Commander Royal Engineers for the 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division. In 1940 he became Deputy Director of Staff Duties at the British War Office, followed by a liaison officer with US Forces in London in 1942. His last war appointment was as Chief of Staff for the 14th Army in Burma from 1944 under the command of Field Marshall Sir William Slim, later 1st Viscount Slim. After the War, he became Chief of Intelligence for the Control Commission for Germany and British Army of the Rhine in 1945, Commandant of the Civil Defense Staff College in 1949 and Director of Civil Defense for the South West Region (Bristol) in September 1955. During his military career, he was awarded the Companion of the Order of the Bath, the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and the Military Cross. He died at the age of 73 not long after his retirement in 1960. A cenotaph in his honor resides at the Exeter Cathedral in Exeter, Devon, England.