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Major General Sir Walter Joseph Cawthorn (11 June 1896 – 4 December 1970) was an Australian soldier and diplomat, commonly known as a former head of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). Cawthorn was born in the suburb of Prahran in Melbourne.〔 He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, following the start of World War I, and served as a regimental sergeant major, in Gallipoli, and was later commissioned into the AIF and served in France and Belgium. 〔 He was commissioned a Lieutenant and appointed to the Indian Army 25 March 1918.〔Indian Army List January 1919〕 He served with the 46th Punjabis in Palestine September to October 1918 and was Mention in Despatches in the London Gazette 12 January 1920. He joined the 4th battalion 16th Punjab Regiment 25 September 1925 and attended the Camberly Staff College in 1929-30.〔 July 1929 Indian Army list〕 He was appointed a company commander in the 4th battalion 16th Punjab Regiment 1 May 1930 and served on the North West Frontier that year.〔1941 War Services Supplement to Indian Army List〕 He served on the Staff of Baluchistan District as a General Staff Officer 3rd grade (G.S.O. 3) from 15 December 1930 to 29 February 1932.〔1941 War Services Supplement to Indian Army List〕 He was appointed Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General (D.A.Q.M.G.) on the Staff of Western Command at Quetta 1 March 1932 to 20 January 1935.〔1941 War Services Supplement to Indian Army List〕 He served on the Mohmand operations on the North West Frontier in 1935.〔1941 War Services Supplement to Indian Army List〕 He was appointed a General Staff Officer 2nd grade (G.S.O. 2) at the War Office in London from 6 January 1937 to 2 August 1939. He was appointed a local Colonel and temporary General Staff Officer 1st grade (G.S.O. 1) on 3 August 1939〔 Oct 1939 Indian Army List〕 Cawthorn took charge of the Middle East Intelligence Centre, at the start of World War II, and later became the Director of Military Intelligence at the General Headquarters, in India on 15 August 1941.〔 October 1942 Indian Army List〕 He was appointed a Temporary Major General on 21 November 1943.〔April 1947 Army List〕 At Partition in 1947 he opted for the Pakistan Army and from 1948 to 1951 he was Deputy Chief General Staff, Pakistan Army under Lieutenant General Ross C. McCay. In this capacity was given the task by the government to organize the infrastructure of ISI. He selected Colonel Shahid Hamid to set up this new formation and command it. Cawthorn left Pakistan in 1951. From 1951 to 1954, he was the Director of the Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB), within the Defence ministry. He came back to Pakistan in 1954 as Australia’s High Commissioner to Pakistan. He was knighted in 1958, and in 1959 appointed as High Commissioner of Canada until September 1960, when he was brought back to head the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) until 1968.〔〔 Cawthorn died in Melbourne in 1970, at the age of 74.〔 ==Private life== Walter Joseph Cawthorn was born in the suburb of Prahran, on 11 June 1896, the second child of an English commercial traveller, William Cawthorn, and his wife, Fanny Adelaide, née Williams. He was educated at Melbourne High School, and became a schoolteacher, along with his younger sister, Minnie Elizabeth Cawthorn.〔 He married in 1927 in London and they had one son, Michael John Douglas Cawthorn born 10 March 1930. He would later attend the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 16 December 1949. However he was killed serving in Korea 4 April 1951 with the 1st battalion.〔Australian War Memorial〕〔February 1950 Half Yearly Army List〕 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「Walter Cawthorn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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