Died 8 January 1949 Rank Lieutenant General Years of service 1906 - 1944 | Service/branch British Army Allegiance United Kingdom Name Douglas Dickinson | |
Commands held 1st Bn Welch Regiment
East Africa Force | ||
Lieutenant-General Douglas Povah Dickinson CB DSO OBE MC (6 November 1886 – 8 January 1949) was a senior British Army officer who commanded the East Africa Force at the start of World War II.
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Military career
Dickinson was commissioned into the Welch Regiment in 1906 and served in World War I in France and Belgium. After attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1919 to 1920, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General there in 1925, Inspector of the Iraq Army in Kurdistan in 1930 and Inspector with British Military Mission attached to the Iraq Army in 1932. He went on to be Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion of The Welch Regiment in 1934, Commandant of the Nigeria Regiment in 1936 and Inspector-General of the African Colonial Forces early in 1939. Dickinson served in World War II as General Officer Commanding the East Africa Force from September 1939 and as Chief of Staff of Western Command from January 1941. He retired in 1944.
Family
In 1924 he married Frances Mildred Wilson; they had two daughters.