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Lashmer Whistler
General Sir Lashmer Gordon Whistler & Two Bars, DL (3 September 1898 – 4 July 1963), known as Bolo, was a senior officer of the British Army who served in the First and Second World Wars. During the latter, he achieved senior ranks serving with Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery in North Africa and North-western Europe. Montgomery considered that Whistler "was about the best infantry brigade commander I knew". In peacetime, his outstanding powers of leadership were shown in a series of roles in the decolonisation process, and he reached the rank of general.
==Early life and career==
Whistler was the son of Colonel A.E. Whistler of the British Indian Army and his wife Florence Annie Gordon Rivett-Carnac, daughter of Charles Forbes Rivett-Carnac. He was educated at St Cyprian's School where he was an outstanding sportsman, and on the recommendation of the headmaster was awarded a sporting scholarship at Harrow School. He played cricket for Harrow,〔Smyth (1967), p.35〕 and was to remain a redoubtable batsman throughout his career.〔The Times ''Gen. Sir Lashmer Whistler- G. D. M. (G. D. Martineau) writes -'' Wednesday 17 July 1963〕 He then went to Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1917 and served in France and Belgium during the First World War. He was wounded twice, and on the second occasion he was taken as prisoner of war by the Germans before he had recovered. Later, he managed to escape from a prison train, but was re-captured within 20 yards of the Dutch border. He was then held at Ulrich Gasse in Cologne where he lost five stone and could hardly walk by the end of the war〔Smyth (1967), pp. 40–41〕
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