| 词条 | John Cowley (British Army officer) |
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|name= Sir John Cowley |image= |image_size= |alt= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date= {{birth date|1905|08|20|df=yes}} |birth_place= Mussoorie, India |death_date= {{death date and age|1993|01|07|1905|08|20|df=yes}} |death_place= New Forest, Hampshire |placeofburial= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= British Army |serviceyears= 1925–1962 |rank= Lieutenant General |unit= |commands= Master-General of the Ordnance (1960–62) |battles= Second World War |awards= George Cross Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Companion of the Order of the Bath |relations= |laterwork= }} Lieutenant General Sir John Guise Cowley, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|GC|KBE|CB}} (20 August 1905 – 7 January 1993) was a British Army officer and George Cross recipient who reached high office in the 1950s. Military careerEducated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich,[1] Cowley was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 3 September 1925.[2][3] He was promoted to lieutenant on 3 September 1927.[4] He was awarded the Albert Medal which he subsequently exchanged for the George Cross because of his action during the Quetta earthquake of May 1935.[1] Cowley received his Albert Medal for rescuing earthquake survivors from the ruins of a collapsed hospital. At the time, he was posted to India and was attached to the 16th Army Troops Company, 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners (now the Madras Engineer Group of the Indian Army): {{quote|Lieutenant Cowley and his party were the first to start relief work at the Civil Hospital where the walls of all the wards had collapsed, bringing down the roofs intact on the inmates on whom the debris of the walls had already fallen. At first, the men were too few in number to tear off the roofs, so they raised them up for short periods whilst Lieutenant Cowley crawled under them and dragged out survivors from their beds. The survivors were pre-earthquake hospital patients and mostly quite helpless. Lieutenant Cowley lifted many men in his arms, regardless of the warning that they were suffering from all manner of diseases. Had it not been for the work of this officer and the excellent example shown by him to his men, very many less men would have been saved alive.[5]}}Cowley was promoted to captain on 3 September 1936.[6] From 16 November 1936 to 17 December 1938, he was an instructor at Woolwich.[7][8] He was promoted to major on 3 September 1942,[9] and served in the Second World War in the Middle East, Italy and North West Europe.[3] Ending the war as a brigadier and war-substantive lieutenant colonel, he was promoted to colonel on 10 March 1949.[10] In 1953 he became Chief of Staff at Headquarters Eastern Command.[3] He was then appointed Vice Quartermaster-General in 1956, Controller of Munitions at the Ministry of Supply in 1957 and Master-General of the Ordnance in 1960; he retired in 1962.[3] He was also made Colonel Commandant of the Royal Pioneer Corps from 1961 to 1968.[11] FamilyIn 1941 he married Irene Sybil Millen and together they went on to have one son and three daughters.[1] References1. ^1 2 GC database {{s-start}}{{s-mil}}{{s-bef|before=Vacant}}{{s-ttl|title=Master-General of the Ordnance|years=1960–1962}}{{s-aft|after=Sir Cecil Sugden}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cowley, John}}2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=33081|supp=|page=5836|date=4 September 1925}} 3. ^1 2 3 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives 4. ^{{London Gazette|issue=33308|supp=|page=5671|date=2 September 1927}} 5. ^{{London Gazette|issue=34221|supp=|page=7317|date=19 November 1935}} 6. ^{{London Gazette|issue=34320|supp=|page=5723|date=4 September 1936}} 7. ^{{London Gazette|issue=34343|supp=|page=7572|date=24 November 1936}} 8. ^{{London Gazette|issue=34580|supp=|page=7996|date=16 December 1938}} 9. ^{{London Gazette|issue=35690|supp=|page=3855|date=1 September 1942}} 10. ^{{London Gazette|issue=38773|supp=y|page=5709|date=2 December 1949}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org:80/regiments/uk/corps/RPC.htm |title=Royal Pioneer Corps |publisher=Regiments.org |accessdate=18 December 2017 |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060719150643/http://www.regiments.org:80/regiments/uk/corps/RPC.htm|archivedate=5 January 2017 |df=dmy }} 9 : 1905 births|1993 deaths|British Army generals|British Army personnel of World War II|Royal Engineers officers|Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire|Companions of the Order of the Bath|People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire|Recipients of the Albert Medal (lifesaving) |
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