Date of birth:

August 14th, 1890

Date of death:

February 4th, 1971

Nationality:

British (1801-present, Kingdom)

Promotions:
1910: 2nd Lieutenant;
1912: Lieutenant;
1916: Captain;
1926: Major;
1934: Lieutenant-Colonel;
1936: Colonel;
1941: Brigadier.

Career:
1910: Royal Engineers;
1914: British Expeditionary Forces;
1919 - 1922: Staff Captain, War Office;
1927 - 1929: Instructor, Royal Engineers Training Centre;
1930-1932: Birma;
1933 - 1934: Commander, Royal Engineering, India;
1936 - 1941: Department for Armament, War Office / Assistent Director Ministry of Supplies;
1941: Chief Engineer, Malaya Command;
December 31st, 1941: Director General Civil Defence Malaya;
1941: POW Karenko/Shirakawa (Camp 4);
1945: liberated.

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• - MCCRUM, R., Men who lost Singapore, 1938-1942, NUS Press, 2018.
  - TSUJI, M., Singapore, 1941-42, OUP Australia and New Zealand, 1988.
  - Lilly, E.J., Prisoners of War Listed Numerically
  - Identity Statements, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College, London