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Laurence Carr

Laurence Carr

British Army general (1886–1954)

Lieutenant General Laurence Carr CB DSO OBE (14 April 1886 – 15 April 1954) was a British Army general during World War II.

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Military career

Laurence Carr was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in 1904.[1] He served in World War I in France and Belgium.[1] After the War he attended the Staff College, Camberley and was deployed to India in 1920.[1] From 1931 he was a General Staff Officer at the War Office moving on to join the staff at the Imperial Defence College in 1934.[1] He was appointed Commander 2nd Infantry Brigade in 1936 and deployed to Palestine and then became Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1938.[1]

He also served in World War II initially as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff and then as General Officer Commanding I Corps, which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force, deployed to France and Belgium in 1940.[1] He became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Command in 1941.[1] His last appointment was as Senior Military Assistant to the Ministry of Supply in 1942; he retired in 1944.[1]

Family

He was married to Elizabeth Montgomery Carr.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  2. [2]
    Letters to his wife

Bibliography

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