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Ronald Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks
Lieutenant-General Ronald Morce Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks KCB, CBE, DSO, MC, TD (13 November 1890 – 19 August 1960) was a British Army General during the Second World War.
==Military career==
Weeks was commissioned into the South Lancashire Regiment of the Territorial Army in 1913.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served in the Rifle Brigade during the First World War and then retired from military service in 1919.〔
He was re-employed during the Second World War initially as Chief of Staff for the Territorial Division and then as a Brigadier on the General Staff of Home Forces in 1940.〔 He was appointed Director General of Army Equipment in 1941 and Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1942.〔 He then became Deputy Military Governor and Chief of Staff of the British Zone for the Allied Control Council in Germany in 1945; in that capacity he was involved in negotiations to avoid the Berlin Blockade.〔(''Berlin Airlift: The Salvation of a City'' By Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell, Page 11 ) Pelican, 2008, ISBN 978-1-58980-550-7〕 He retired from the Army later that year.〔
He was awarded the Military Cross in 1917, and a Bar to the Military Cross in 1918. He was appointed to the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1918, made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1939 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1943.
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