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Henry Leask
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Lowther Ewart Clark Leask KCB DSO OBE (30 June 1913 – 10 January 2004) was a British Army General who held high command during the 1960s. ==Military career== Henry Leask was commissioned into the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1936.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served in the Second World War becoming Commanding Officer of 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1944.〔 He won the DSO for on a three-mile dash to capture two bridges over the River Po at San Patrizio.〔(Obituary: Lt Gen Sir Henry Leask ) The Times, 23 January 2004〕 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.〔 He then became Commanding Officer of 1st Parachute Regiment in 1952.〔 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.〔 In 1962, he became Deputy Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War.〔 He was appointed General Officer Commanding 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division in 1964, and Director of Army Training at the Ministry of Defence in 1966.〔 He became General Officer Commanding Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle in 1969; he retired in 1972.〔
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