The King's Royal Rifle Corps


General Sir Thomas Lethbridge Napier Morland KCB KCMG DSO


1865 9th Aug. born
1884 Commissioned into KRRC
1900 CO of West African Field Force in Nigeria
1905-9 Inspector-General of West African Field Force
1910 Brigadier-General 2nd Infantry Brigade
1914 GOC 47th Division. Then 14th, then 5th Infantry Division
1915 Lieut-Gen. X Corps. Messines
1918 Commanding XIII Corps (until 1920)
1919 1st Aug. Colonel of the Suffolk Regiment (until he died)
1920 C-in-C British Army of the Rhine
1922 GOC Aldershot. Promoted to General
1923 Retired
1925 28th Jan. Colonel of KRRC
1925 21st May. Died


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