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Keith Lindsay Stewart : ウィキペディア英語版 | Keith Lindsay Stewart
Major General Sir Keith Lindsay Stewart KBE, CB, DSO (30 December 1896 – 13 November 1972) was a professional soldier in the New Zealand Military Forces. He served during the First and Second World Wars and was Chief of the General Staff of the New Zealand Military Forces from 1949 to 1952. Born in 1896 in Timaru, New Zealand, he joined the New Zealand Military Forces in 1914 as a cadet. He joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in 1916 and served in the Middle East for the last two years of the First World War. After the war he held a number of staff positions in New Zealand and abroad. He saw active service during the Second World War as part of the 2nd New Zealand Division. He was made a prisoner of war in August 1944 and spent most of the final months of the war in captivity in Germany. After the war he commanded J Force while it was engaged in occupation duties in Japan. While Chief of General Staff, he oversaw the deployment of New Zealand's military personnel to Korea to assist the United Nations during the Korean War. He retired from the military in 1954 and died in Kawakawa, New Zealand, in 1972. ==Early life== Keith Lindsay Stewart was born in Timaru, South Canterbury on 30 December 1896, the son of a bank manager. He was educated at Napier Boys’ High School and then Wanganui Collegiate. In 1914, he entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in Australia, having passed the necessary entrance exams. He graduated early in order to volunteer for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) in 1916.
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