George Barrow (Indian Army officer)
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4th Cavalry Division
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Military career
Barrow was
major followed on 23 August 1902.[6]
He was appointed Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General in
4th Cavalry Division in 1917 and in 1918 being present at the fall of Jerusalem in Palestine in 1917.[1] He served in the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919 and became General Officer Commanding the Peshawar District of India in 1919, Adjutant-General, India in 1923 and General Officer Commanding Eastern Command, India later that year before retiring in 1929.[1] He served in the Home Guard during World War II.[7]
Family
Barrow came from a Jewish family and was born on 25 October 1864 at
British India. He had three brothers, two of whom were also soldiers.[8] His father, Lyon de Symons Barrow, was a major-general in the service of the Indian Army then Inspector-General of Police in the United Provinces, and himself had several brothers who were military officers. In 1902 he married Sybilla Way, daughter of Colonel G. Way; their son died in 1944 on active service.[9]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Sir George de Symons Barrow". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 5 February 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
- ^ Hart´s Army list, 1903
- ^ "No. 27498". The London Gazette. 25 November 1902. p. 7942.
- ^ "No. 27444". The London Gazette. 20 June 1902. p. 4054.
- ^ "No. 27469". The London Gazette. 29 August 1902. p. 5609.
- ^ "No. 27495". The London Gazette. 14 November 1902. p. 7245.
- ^ The Peerage.com
- ^ Major-Gen. de Symons Barrow, thepeerage.com
- ^ "Obituary: Gen. Sir George Barrow". The Times. London, England. 29 December 1959. p. 10.
Further reading
- The Fire of Life by George de Symons Barrow, published by Hutchinson, 1942
- Two cavalry episodes in the Palestine campaign of 1917–1918 by George de Symons Barrow, published by the Royal United Service Institution, 1936
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