Sir John Laurie, 6th Baronet

Sir John Laurie, 6th Baronet
Sir John Laurie, 6th Baronet
Born	12 August 1892
Died	10 January 1983 (aged 90)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1912–1945
Rank	Major General
Commands held	Combined Operations Training Centre (1942–45); 52nd (Lowland) Division (1941–42); 157th Brigade (1940–41); 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (1934–38); 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (1918–19)
Battles/wars	First World War; Second World War
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Distinguished Service Order & Bar; Mentioned in Despatches; Legion of Honour (France)

Major General Sir John Emilius Laurie, 6th Baronet, CBE, DSO & Bar, DL (12 August 1892 − 10 January 1983) was a British Army officer.[1]

Military career

Educated at Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Laurie was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders in 1912.[2] After serving in the First World War in France, he became commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders in 1934, commanding officer of the British troops in the Tientsin area of China in 1939 and commander of the 157th Brigade in 1940.[2] He was sent to France with the 52nd (Lowland) Division in June 1940 and appointed General Officer Commanding of that division in March 1941 before becoming Commandant of the Combined Operations Training Centre at Inveraray in 1942.[2] He retired from the British Army in 1945.[2]

gollark: It can only occur in unsafe blocks. You could add those (or some pragma or something) to your borrow checker, although based on my limited C observation, hard to check constructs are much more common in it.

gollark: C also has weaker types and requires you to pass (pointer, size) to lots of things, which is also hard to check although *maybe* doable.

gollark: You could detect it, you couldn't verify correctness.

gollark: I guess you could just have `unsafe`/`average_c` blocks for that.

gollark: Pointer arithmetic, for one thing?

References

"Sir John Laurie, 6th Baronet". The Peerage. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
Smart, p. 181

Bibliography

Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnesley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 1844150496.

Military offices
Preceded by James Drew	GOC 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division 1941–1942	Succeeded by Neil Ritchie
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Wilfrid Laurie	Baronet (of Bedford Square) 1936–1983	Succeeded by Robert Laurie

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[1] "Sir John Laurie, 6th Baronet". The Peerage. Retrieved 1 August 2017.

[smart181-2] Smart, p. 181