King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975

Service biography
Joined Rifle Bde 1910; 1 Bn, Rifle Bde 1910-1912; Aide-de-camp to Arthur William De Brito Sevile Foljambe, 5th Earl of Liverpool, Governor General of New Zealand 1912-1914; World War I, Samoa, Egypt, Gallipoli and France 1914-1918; on the staff of Gen Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson of Trent, Dorset, North Russia, Aug 1919; Bde Maj, Aldershot and Ireland 1919-1921; Staff College 1921-1922; War Office 1923-1927; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Staff College Camberley 1928-1931; Depot Commander, Rifle Bde 1931-1934; Commander, 2 Bn King's Royal Rifle Corps 1934-1936; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 2 Div 1936-1938; Commandant Royal Military College 1938-1939; World War II 1939-1945; Div Commander 1940; Director General, Home Guard 1940-1941; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command 1941-1944; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar 1944-1947; retired 1947

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Diaries and papers relating to his service in Russia 1919; the papers of Lt Gen Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese (ref: Strong Rm), include two brief letters from Eastwood, Mar-May 1945, relating to the deployment of units of the Royal Green Jackets

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