King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Name
REES, Thomas Wynford (1898-1959), Major General

Service biography
World War I 1914-1918; Waziristan, North West Frontier, India 1920-1924; Instructor, Royal Military College Sandhurst 1926-1927; Private Secretary to Government of Burma 1928-1930; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General 1935-1937; Waziristan, North West Frontier, India 1936-1937; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Waziristan District, North West Frontier, India 1937-1938; Commander, 3 Bn, 6 Rajputana Rifles, India 1939; World War II 1939-1945; Commander, 10 Indian Div, Iraq and North Africa 1942; Commander 19 Indian Div (Dagger Div), Burma 1944-1945; Commander, 4 Indian Div 1945-1947; Punjab Boundary Force, Aug-Sep 1947; Head of military emergency staff to Emergency Committee of Cabinet, Delhi, India, Sep-Dec 1947; retired 1948

Papers
BRITISH LIBRARY, ORIENTAL AND INDIA OFFICE COLLECTIONS, LONDON: Papers 1931-1952; including reports as Commander of Punjab Boundary Force 1947 (ref: Mss Eur F 274)

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