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Henry Merrick Lawson : ウィキペディア英語版 | Henry Merrick Lawson
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Merrick Lawson KCB (30 January 1859 – 2 November 1933) was a British Army General during World War I. ==Military career== Educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, Lawson was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1877.〔(Great War Forum )〕 He took part in the Suakin Expedition and Nile Expedition in 1884 and served in the Egyptian Army during the Sudan Campaign in 1898.〔 He served in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902 and then became Director of Movements and Quarterings at the War Office in 1904.〔 He was appointed Commander of 13th Infantry Brigade in Dublin in 1906 and Major-General in charge of Administration for Aldershot Command in 1907.〔 He became General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in 1910 and Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey and Alderney in 1914.〔 He went on to be Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff in November 1914,〔(Army Commands )〕 General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Northern Command in 1915 and then went into "Special Service" at the front in 1916.〔 He was critical that too many men were doing "soft jobs" in the War and thereby encouraged the formation of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps.〔(Spartacus )〕 Finally he was Inspector General of Communications for the Italian Expeditionary Force from 1917 to 1918; he retired in 1921.〔
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