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| battles = World War I World War II | awards = | Companion, Order of the Bath | | Mentioned in Despatches | Distinguished Service Order〔 | Légion d'Honneur | Croix de Guerre | Virtuti Militari }} | laterwork = | Justice of the Peace, Salop | President, CCF Association | Lieutenant, Tower of London | High Sheriff of Salop〔1955: 1956: 1957: 1958: 〕 | | Nat'l President, British Legion | | Chairman, Old Etonian Assoc. | | President, The Cricket Society }} }} Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Baronet (27 October 189422 January 1978) was a senior officer of the British Army who saw distinguished active service during both World War I and World War II, where he commanded the British Eighth Army in the Italian Campaign throughout most of 1944. == Early years == Leese was the first son of Sir William Hargreaves Leese, 2nd Baronet, a barrister, and was educated at Ludgrove and Eton. Early in the First World War, he joined the British Army and he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Coldstream Guards on 15 May 1915. Leese was wounded three times, the last during the Somme offensive in 1916, an action in which he was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the DSO.〔(Houterman & Koppes )〕 The citation to his DSO which was gazetted in November 1916 read: After the war, he remained in the Army, being promoted captain in 1921 and attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1927 to 1928. In November 1929 he was appointed as brigade major to 1st Infantry Brigade (Guards) and was formally promoted to major a few days later. He was promoted to brevet lieutenant colonel in July 1933. On 18 January 1933 Leese married a granddaughter of Sir Baldwyn Leighton, 8th Baronet, Margaret Alice (d. 1964), daughter of Cuthbert Leighton (recte Leicester-Warren), DL, JP, (1877-1954), of Tabley House, Knutsford, by Hilda Margaret Davenport; they had no children. Lady Leese's brother was the last of the line to own the Tabley estate which he left on his death in 1975 to the National Trust. From 1932 to 1938 Leese held a number of staff appointments and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in December 1936, brevet colonel in September 1938 and colonel in October 1938. In September 1938 he was posted to India to be a GSO1 instructor at the Staff College, Quetta. He had succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death on 17 January 1937.〔''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage 1953''.〕 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「Oliver Leese」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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