King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975
Name FORD, John Randle Minshull-(1881-1948), Major General
Service biography Joined Royal Welch Fusiliers 1900; World War I 1914-1918; Commander, 1 Bn Expeditionary Force, France 1914-1915; wounded at Neuve Chapelle 1915; Staff Capt, France 1915; Commander, 1 Bn Royal Welch Fusiliers, France 1915-1916; Bde Commander, Home Forces and France 1916-1917; Commander, 7 Bn, Welch Regt 1918-1919; Bde Commander, Rhine Army 1919; Commander, 1 Bn, South Staffordshire Regt 1925-1929; Commander, 5 Infantry Bde, Aldershot Command 1930-1932; Commander, 44 (Home Counties) Div and Area 1934-1938; retired 1938; Col, Royal Welch Fusiliers 1938-1942; Lt Governor and General Officer Commanding Guernsey and Alderney District 1940