Leslie Lockhart

Major-General Leslie Keith Lockhart, CB, CBE, MC (5 June 1897 – 27 March 1966) was a British Army officer.

Leslie Lockhart
Born5 June 1897
Died27 March 1966
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
RankMajor-General
Commands held307th Infantry Brigade
5th Anti-Aircraft Group
East Anglian District
Battles/warsFirst World War
Second World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Military Cross

Military career

Lockhart was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery on 28 July 1915.[1] He was awarded the Military Cross for services in the First World War.[2] He served in the Second World War as a colonel on the British Army Staff at Washington, D.C. from 1940, as Deputy Director of Royal Artillery at the War Office from October 1942 and as commander of an Anti-Aircraft Brigade in North-West Europe from 1944.[3] He then served as Deputy General Officer Commanding the Anti-Aircraft Units of 21st Army Group in North-West Europe from early 1945 and as commander of 307th Infantry Brigade from May 1945.[3]

After the war he became commander of 5th Anti-Aircraft Group on the East Coast in 1947 and General Officer Commanding East Anglian District in May 1951 before retiring in December 1952.[4]

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References
  1. "No. 29242". The London Gazette. 27 July 1915. p. 7335.
  2. "No. 29886". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2016. p. 37.
  3. "Lockhart, Leslie Keith". Generals.dk. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  4. "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 7 June 2020.
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Hugh Stockwell		 GOC East Anglian District
1951–1952		 Succeeded by
Roger Bower
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