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John Brind
General Sir John Edward Spencer Brind, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, (1878–1954) was a British Army officer who commanded 4th Division. ==Military career== Brind was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1897.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served in the Second Boer War in South Africa 1899-1900, where he took part in operations in the Orange Free State, including engagements near Vet River and Sand River, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 23 December 1900. After the war, he was promoted to the rank of Captain on 11 April 1902, and served with the Native Mountain Artillery in India. Following the outbreak of World War I, Brind was sent to France as a captain with the Royal Garrison Artillery on 16 August 1914〔J.E.S. Brind's WWI Medal Index Card, The National Archive, Kew, Surrey, England.〕 and then served as a general staff officer with 56th (London) Division from 6 February 1916 to 31 October 1916.〔Dudley-Ward, C.H., 'The 56th Division' (Pub. John Murray (1921), P.315.〕 He then became a brigadier on the general staff of XI Corps, part of Fifth Army.〔''Official History 1918'' Volume V, p 125 and Appendix I.〕 After the War Brind became Deputy Director at the War Office in 1923, colonel Royal Artillery at Aldershot Command in 1925 and brigadier on the general staff at Aldershot Command in 1927.〔 After becoming major-general, Royal Artillery in India in 1930, he went on to be Deputy Chief of the General Staff at Army Headquarters, India in 1931 and then General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 1933.〔 His final appointments were as Commander-in-Chief, International Force in the Saar in 1934, Adjutant-General, India in 1936 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command in October 1937, serving in that role in the early years of World War II before retiring in 1941.〔
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