Louis Bols
Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Jean Bols KCB, KCMG, DSO (23 November 1867 – 13 September 1930, Bath) was born in Cape Town and educated at Lancing College in England. He was a distinguished British military officer. He served as Edmund Allenby's Third Army Chief of Staff on the Western front and Sinai and Palestine campaigns of World War I.
From June 1919 – June 1920 he served as the Chief Administrator of Palestine, and signed over power to Herbert Samuels, the first British High Commissioner of Palestine, in an often-quoted document:
- "Received from Major-General Sir Louis J. Bols K.C.B.—One Palestine, complete."
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