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General Sir Walter King Venning (1882–1964) was a regular officer of the British and Indian Armies who became Quartermaster-General to the Forces. ==Military career== Educated at Allhallows College, which was then at Honiton, Devon,〔(Centenary Edition of the Magazine of the Old Honitonians' Club ) at oldhonitonians.com〕 Venning was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1901.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He saw service with West African Frontier Force from 1907 to 1910.〔 He saw active service in the First World War, initially as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force, and then as Assistant Adjutant General at the War Office.〔 After the War Venning became an Instructor at the Staff College and then in 1922 was promoted to Assistant Adjutant General at the War Office.〔 He was appointed Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General at Aldershot Command in 1927 and Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster General at Eastern Command in India in 1929.〔 In 1931 he became commanding officer of the 2nd (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade in India, and then in 1934 returned to the British Army as Director of Movements and Quartering at the War Office.〔 In the Second World War Venning served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 2 February 1939 to 1942; in this capacity he had responsibility for the War Office Fleet, which he despatched to Dunkirk in 1940 to evacuate Allied forces.〔(World War II The People's War ) at bbc.co.uk〕 Venning's last posting, from 1942 to 1946, was as Director General of the British Supply Mission in Washington, D.C..〔 In his retirement he became Chairman of the Governors of his old school, Allhallows. 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 Venning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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