| 词条 | Louis Bols |
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|name=Sir Louis Jean Bols |birth_date=23 November 1867 |death_date= 13 September 1930 (aged 62) |birth_place= Cape Town, South Africa |death_place= |image=Major-General Sir Louis Jean Bols, KCB, DSO.jpg |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= {{flag|United Kingdom}}/British Empire |serviceyears=1887–1920 |rank=Lieutenant General |branch= {{army|United Kingdom}} |unit=Devonshire Regiment |commands=24th Division |battles= Chitral Expedition Second Boer War World War I |awards=Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in despatches (6) |relations=Eric Bols (son) }} Lieutenant General Sir Louis Jean Bols {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCB|KCMG|DSO}} (23 November 1867 – 13 September 1930, Bath) was a distinguished British military officer who served as Edmund Allenby's Third Army Chief of Staff on the Western front and Sinai and Palestine campaigns of World War I. Bols was born in Cape Town and educated at Lancing College in England. Early military careerHe was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment on 5 February 1887, and was promoted to lieutenant on 22 September 1889. In 1891-92 he served in Burma, including operations in the Kachin Hills, and received the operational medal with clasp. In 1895 he served with the Chitral Relief Force under Sir Robert Low as adjutant and quartermaster at the British Military Depot. Promotion to captain followed on 18 January 1897, and he served as adjutant of the 2nd Battalion of his regiment from 17 February 1899. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, his battalion was sent to South Africa, where he served as adjutant of the battalion throughout the war. He was present at the battles of Colenso (15 December 1899), Vaal Krantz (5–7 February 1900), Tugela Heights and Pieter´s Hill (14–27 February 1900) and the Relief of Ladysmith (1 March 1900), and later in operations in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony.[1] For his services in the war, he was twice mentioned in despatches, received the Queen's South Africa Medal and was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). After peace was declared in May 1902, Bols left South Africa on board the SS Bavarian and arrived in the United Kingdom the following month.[2] First World War and PalestineHe commanded the Dorsetshire Regiment in the First World War. From January to June 1920 he served as the Chief Administrator of Palestine, and signed over power to Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner of Palestine, in an often-quoted document: "Received from Major-General Sir Louis J. Bols K.C.B.—One Palestine, complete."[3] Later lifeIn 1921 he was made Colonel of the Devonshire Regiment. From 1927 to his death he was Governor of Bermuda. He died in 1930 in a Bath nursing home. He had married Augusta Blanche Strickland; their son was Major-General Eric Louis Bols. Honours
Notes1. ^Hart´s Army list, 1903 2. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=The Army in South Africa - the Coronation contingent |day_of_week=Wednesday |date= 11 June 1902 |page_number=14 |issue=36791}} 3. ^{{cite ODNB|last=Owen|first= C. V.|date=2004|id=31947 |title=Bols, Sir Louis Jean (1867–1930)}} 4. ^{{London Gazette|issue=32201|date=18 January 1921|page=572|supp=y}} External links
before = Sir Harry Watson| title = Chief Administrator of Palestine | years = 1920–1920| after = Sir Herbert Samuel }}{{succession box | before = Sir Joseph John Asser | title = Governor of Bermuda | years = 1927–1930| after = Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt | }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bols, Louis}} 17 : 1867 births|1930 deaths|Administrators of Palestine|British Army generals of World War I|British Army personnel of the Second Boer War|British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition|British people of Belgian descent|Companions of the Distinguished Service Order|Devonshire Regiment officers|Governors of Bermuda|Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George|Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath|Legion of Honour recipients|People educated at Lancing College|Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir|Recipients of the Order of the Nile|Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class |
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