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Alec Wilfred Lee

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until it was disbanded in 1943. In 1944 he was sent to India where he was Major-General in Command of Formation Training until later that year when he was sent to the United States to be Deputy Head of the British Army Staff in Washington, D.C.
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from 1926 to 1927. After this, he went to England to serve as an instructor at the
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He remained in this post until 1947, during which time he also served as
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in London as deputy director of Staff Duties, Lee, by now a
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in 1914. This was followed by seeing active service on the
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for the next four years. In 1937 he transferred to the
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Index

British Army
Major-General
Service number
South Staffordshire Regiment
Royal Irish Fusiliers
Staffordshire Regiment
133rd Infantry Brigade
World War I
World War II
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Military Cross
Mentioned in dispatches
Major-General
CB
MC
British Army
world wars
Clifton College
World War I
commissioned as an officer
South Staffordshire Regiment
British Army
Western Front
Military Cross
mentioned in dispatches
interwar period
captain
India
Staff College, Quetta
Staff College, Camberley

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