Christopher Michael Maltby

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Major General Christopher Michael Maltby, CB, MC (1891–1980) was a British military officer.

• 1911 Joined the British Indian Army;
• 1913–1914 Persian Gulf
• 1914–1918 World War I
• 1923–1924 Staff College, Quetta, India
• 1923–1924 North West Frontier, India
• 1925–1927 General Staff Officer Grade 2, Army Headquarters, India
• 1927–1928 RAF Staff College, Andover
• 1930–1934 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Army Headquarters, India
• 1937 North West Frontier, India
• 1938 Instructor, Staff College, Quetta
• 1939 General Staff Officer Grade 1, Baluchistan District, India
• World War II
  • 1939–1941 Commander, 3 Jhelum Brigade, Calcutta Brigade, and 19 Indian Infantry beigade, in Deccan District, India and British Troops in China
  • 1941 General Officer Commanding British Forces, Hong Kong Garrison
  • 1941 Surrendered Hong Kong to Japanese
  • 1941–1945 Prisoner of War (POW) of the Japanese

[edit] References

• Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975,Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives