Thomas Wynford Rees - Army Career

Army Career

  • Passed out from Officer Cadet College, Quetta and commissioned 2nd lieutenant into the Indian Army unattached list (1915)
  • Attached to 73rd Carnatic Infantry (1915)
  • attached to 125th Napier's Rifles (later 5th (Napier's) battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles)
  • World War I, MC, mentioned in dispatches
  • Awarded DSO whilst in Egypt – (1919)
  • Staff Captain in Wazir Force, Waziristan – (1922–1925)
  • Staff Officer (Intelligence) (GSO3), India – (1925–1926)
  • Instructor, Royal Military College Sandhurst – (1926–1928)
  • Private Secretary to Governor of Burma – (1928–1930)
  • Attended Staff College, Camberley (1931–1932)
  • Promoted to major (November 1933)
  • Staff Officer (GSO3), India – (1934)
  • Waziristan, North West Frontier, India – (1935–1937)
  • Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, India – (1936–1937)
  • Appointed brevet lieutenant-colonel for "distinguished services in the field ...in Waziristan during the period 25 November 1936 and 16 January 1937" – (1937))
  • General Staff Officer Grade 2, Waziristan District, North West Frontier, India – (1937–1938)
  • Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion, 6th Rajputana Rifles, India – (1938–1939)
  • General Staff Officer 1, Indian 4th Infantry Division, North Africa and Sudan – (1940–1941)
  • Commanding Officer, 10th Indian Brigade, Sudan – (1941–1942)
  • General Officer Commanding, Indian 10th Infantry Division, Middle East – North Africa – (1942)
  • General Officer Commanding, Indian 19th Infantry Division, Burma – (1942–1945)
  • Permanent rank advanced to Colonel.
  • General Officer Commanding, Indian 4th Infantry Division – (1945–1947)
  • General Officer Commanding, Punjab Boundary Force, India – (1947)
  • Head Military Emergency Staff to Emergency Committee of Cabinet, India – (1947)
  • Retired – (1948)

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