Английская Википедия:Henry Leask
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox military person Lieutenant General Sir Henry Lowther Ewart Clark Leask KCB DSO OBE (30 June 1913 – 10 January 2004) was a senior British Army officer who served in World War II and held high command during the 1960s.
Military career
Henry Leask was commissioned into the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1936.[1]
He served in the Second World War becoming commanding officer of 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1944.[1] He won the DSO for on a three-mile dash to capture two bridges over the River Po at San Patrizio.[2]
After the War, in 1946, he was appointed commanding officer of 1st London Scottish and from 1947 he was in Military Operations Directorate at the War Office.[1] He then became commanding officer of 1st Parachute Regiment in 1952.[1] He was appointed Assistant Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War in 1955 and then from 1957 he was Commandant of the Tactical Wing of the School of Infantry.[1] In 1962, he became Deputy Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War.[1]
He was appointed General Officer Commanding 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division in 1964, and Director of Army Training at the Ministry of Defence in 1966.[1] He became General Officer Commanding Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle in 1969; he retired in 1972.[1]
Family
In 1940, he married Zoe de Camborne Paynter and together they went on to have one son and two daughters.[2] Their son Anthony (b.1943) followed his father into the services, joining the Scots Guards and rising to the rank of Major-General, before becoming a military historian.[3]
References
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- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Obituary: Lt Gen Sir Henry Leask The Times, 23 January 2004
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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