Thomas Jacomb Hutton

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Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton
1890 - 1981
Allegiance British Army
Years of service 1909-1944
Rank Lieutenant general
Commands held Burma Command
Royal Artillery
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
* Burma Campaign
Awards Military Cross with bar
Order of the Bath
Order of the Indian Empire

Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton, MC, KCB, KCIE was a British general who lived from 1890 to 1981.

  • born 1890;
  • educated at Rossall School and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
  • 1909 commissioned into the Army as 2nd lieutenant, Royal Artillery
  • World War I
  • 1914 - 1918 service on the Western Front
    • 1915 promoted captain
    • 1918 prompted brevet major
    • 1918 General Staff Officer, Grade 3
    • 1918 - 1919 Major in a Brigade
  • 1919 - 1920 Assistant Military Secretary
  • 1923 - 1924 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office
  • 1924 - 1926 General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Eastern Command
  • 1927 promoted Major
  • 1927 - 1930 Military Assistant to Chief of the Imperial General Staff,
  • 1930 promoted colonel
  • 1933 - 1936 General Staff Officer Grade 1, Military Operations,
  • 1936 served in Palestine,
  • 1936 - 1938 General Staff Officer Grade 1, 1 Division
  • 1938 promoted major-general
  • World War II
    • 1938 - 1940 General Officer Commanding Western Independent District, India
    • 1940 - 1941 Deputy Chief of General Staff, Army HQ, India
    • 1941 promoted lieutenant general and Chief of General Staff, India
    • 1942 General Officer Commanding Burma, Burma Command
    • 1942 - 1944 Secretary of War Resources and Reconstruction Committees of Council, India
    • 1942 - 1952 Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery
    • 1944 retired from the army
  • 1944 - 1946 Officiating Secretary, Viceroy's Executive Council
  • 1947 - 1949 Regional Officer, Ministry of Health
  • 1949 - 1953 General Manager, Anglo-American Council on Productivity
  • 1953 - 1957 Director, British Productivity Council
  • 1957 - 1964 Chairman of Organisation and Methods Training Council
  • 1981 died

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