JeffK
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'Pete' Rees or Major General Thomas Wynford Rees CB, CIE, DSO & Bar, MC, DL(1898-1959) Military Service (from wikipedia) Passed out from Officer Cadet College, Quetta and commissioned 2nd lieutenant into the Indian Army unattached list (1915) Attached to 73rd Carnatic Infantry (1915) Attached to 125th Napier's Rifles (later 5th (Napier's) battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles) World War I, MC, mentioned in dispatches Awarded DSO whilst in Egypt (1919) Captain in Wazir Force, Waziristan (19221925) Staff Officer (Intelligence) (GSO3), India (19251926) Instructor, Royal Military College Sandhurst (19261928) Private Secretary to Governor of Burma (19281930) Attended Staff College, Camberley (19311932) Promoted to major (November 1933) Staff Officer (GSO3), India (1934)Waziristan, North West Frontier, India (19351937) Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, India (19361937) Appointed brevet lieutenant-colonel for "distinguished services in the field ...in Waziristan during the period 25th November 1936 and 16th January 1937" (1937)) General Staff Officer Grade 2, Waziristan District, North West Frontier, India (19371938) Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion, 6th Rajputana Rifles, India (19381939) General Staff Officer 1, Indian 4th Infantry Division, North Africa and Sudan (19401941) Commanding Officer, 10th Indian Brigade, Sudan (19411942) General Officer Commanding, Indian 10th Infantry Division, Middle East North Africa (1942) General Officer Commanding, Indian 19th Infantry Division, Burma (19421945) General Officer Commanding, Indian 4th Infantry Division (19451947) General Officer Commanding, Punjab Boundary Force, India (1947) Head Military Emergency Staff to Emergency Committee of Cabinet, India (1947) Retired (1948)
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