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General Sir John Francis Stanhope Duke Coleridge GCB CMG DSO (25 April 1878 – 3 November 1951) was a senior British Indian Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary to the India Office. ==Military career== Coleridge was educated at Wellington College〔Wellington College Register 1859-1933, p. 163〕 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.〔 He was commissioned into the Indian Staff Corps in 1898, transferred to the 8th Gurkhas in July 1900〔January 1908 Indian Army List〕 and was sent on a mission to Tibet in 1903.〔(The Opening of Tibet: An account of Lhasa and the Country and the People of Central Tibet and the progress of the mission sent there by the English Government in the year 1903 to 1904 )〕 Coleridge served on the Abor expedition on the north east frontier of India in 1911-12 and was mentioned in despatches. He served in World War I and in 1916 was on the General Staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.〔(MacMunn, G. & Falls, C., Military operations: Egypt and Palestine, (London 1930), p. 387 )〕 He served as Commander of 189th Brigade from October 1917 and then 188th Brigade from December 1917〔(Royal Naval Division )〕 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order,〔London Gazette 3 June 1916〕 Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George〔London Gazette 3 June 1918〕 and a bar to his Distinguished Service Order.〔London Gazette 2 December 1918〕 After the War he returned to India as a General Staff Officer and carried out a review the new Indian Defence Force and the internal security measures there.〔(National Archives )〕 He served as Assistant Commandant at the Quetta Staff College from 1923 to 1925, Military Secretary Army Headquarters, India from 1926 to 1930 and became commander of the Kohat District in 1930.〔p463, Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1944〕 During the North West Frontier operations of 1930-31 he commanded, as a Major-General, the Peshawar District.〔(Orders of Battle )〕 He was Military Secretary to the India Office from 1933 to 1936 and General Officer Commanding Northern Command, India from 1936 to 1940 for which he was mentioned in despatches twice, retiring shortly afterwards.〔(Major Michael Delme-Radcliffe, Royal Engineers )〕 He was a Companion of the Order of the Bath,〔London Gazette 4 June 1921〕 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath〔London Gazette 1933〕 and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.〔London Gazette 11 July 1940〕 He was also Aide de Camp General to the King from 1936 to 1940.〔 He was appointed Colonel of the 8th Gurkha Rifles from January 1926,〔January 1931 Indian Army List〕 Colonel of the 2nd battalion 1st Punjab Regiment from November 1932〔October 1939 Indian Army List〕 and honorary Colonel 87th Anti-Tank regiment, Royal Artillery (Devons) from 1941.〔Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1944, p. 463〕 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「John Coleridge (Indian Army officer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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