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General Sir Evelyn Hugh Barker KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, (1894–1983) was a senior officer of the British Army who saw service in both World War I and World War II, and commander of British forces in the Palestine from 1946 to 1947. Barker is remembered for his order, following the King David Hotel bombing, that ''(We) will be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes as much as any, by striking at their pockets and showing our contempt of them''.〔Defries, p. 194.〕 ==Military service in 1913–1946== The son of a high-ranking officer, Major-General Sir George Barker, Evelyn Barker was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC), in 1913, and sent the next year to the Western Front of World War I.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He fought in France, took part in the Thessaloniki (in Greece) operation, and was wounded and decorated. In 1919, still with the KRRC, Barker took part in the British military expedition against the Bolsheviks in the south of the former Russian Empire. As commander of the 2nd battalion KRRC, Barker served in Palestine during the Palestinian Arab Revolt of 1936 – 39, returning to the United Kingdom in 1938 to take command of 10th Infantry Brigade.〔Mead (2007), p. 58〕 Shortly after the start of World War II in September 1939, he took his brigade, in October, one of three forming the 4th Infantry Division, to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force.〔 After the Allies defeat on the continent, he was evacuated from Dunkirk with other troops to Britain where he assumed command of the 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division.〔 In April 1943 Barker took over the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division, which he led in the Battle of Normandy and the ensuing fighting in Northern France.〔Mead (2007), pp. 59–60〕 Barker distinguished himself during the liberation of Le Havre. During early December, 1944 Sir Richard O'Connor was transferred to India to take command of the Eastern Army and Barker, by now a Lieutenant-General, was appointed the new commander of VIII Corps in his place.〔Jackson, pp. 164-165〕 VIII Corps saw extensive action during the final push into Germany between March and May 1945.〔Mead (2007), p. 60〕 On 15 April 1945, elements of Barker's Corps liberated the remaining survivors of the Belsen concentration camp. After the German capitulation, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery appointed Barker to head the Schleswig-Holstein Corps District of the British occupation zone. He was also knighted (KBE) immediately after the campaign.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evelyn Barker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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