| 词条 | Ronald Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks |
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| name =The Lord Weeks | image =Ronald Weeks in 1942.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1890|11|13|df=yes}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1960|08|19|1890|11|13|df=yes}}| placeofburial_label = | placeofburial = | birth_place = | death_place = | placeofburial_coordinates = | nickname = | allegiance ={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | branch = British Army | serviceyears = | rank =Lieutenant-General | unit = | commands = | battles =World War I World War II | awards =Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Military Cross & Bar | relations = | laterwork = }} Lieutenant-General Ronald Morce Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks KCB, CBE, DSO, MC & Bar, TD (13 November 1890 – 19 August 1960) was a British Army General during the Second World War. Military careerWeeks was commissioned into the South Lancashire Regiment of the Territorial Army in 1913.[1] He served in the Rifle Brigade during the First World War and then retired from military service in 1919.[1] He was re-employed during the Second World War initially as Chief of Staff for the Territorial Division and then as a Brigadier on the General Staff of Home Forces in 1940.[1] He was promoted to acting major-general on 17 March 1941[2] and was appointed Director General of Army Equipment in 1941 and Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1942.[1] He then became Deputy Military Governor and Chief of Staff of the British Zone for the Allied Control Council in Germany in 1945; in that capacity he was involved in negotiations to avoid the Berlin Blockade.[3] He retired from the British Army later that year.[1] He was awarded the Military Cross in 1917,[4] and a Bar to the Military Cross in 1918.[5] He was appointed to the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1918,[6] made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1939[7] and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1943.[8] Later lifeAfter the war Weeks became Chairman of Vickers.[9] In 1956 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Weeks, of Ryton in the County Palatine of Durham.[10] Marriages and childrenWeeks married firstly Evelyn Elsie Haynes on 21 April 1922. They were divorced in 1930 and on 3 February 1931 he married secondly Cynthia Mary Irvine. With his second wife he had two daughters:[11]
Weeks died on 19 August 1960, aged 69, when, in the absence of male heirs, the barony became extinct. Styles of address
References1. ^1 2 3 4 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives {{s-start}}{{s-mil}}{{succession box | title = Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff | before =None | after =Sir Sidney Kirkman | years = 1942–1945}}{{s-reg|uk}}{{s-new | creation}}{{s-ttl2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=35118|date=25 March 1941|page=1783|supp=y}} 3. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=A7EyxCDaz8oC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=%22Sir+Ronald+Weeks%22&source=bl&ots=5nFwI5csOX&sig=DKI49KmFazR1u0xGAat1CK9CLeE&hl=en&ei=ccMSS6iYEc-ZjAeYvdXKAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CB8Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=%22Sir%20Ronald%20Weeks%22&f=false Berlin Airlift: The Salvation of a City By Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell, Page 11] Pelican, 2008, {{ISBN|978-1-58980-550-7}} 4. ^1 {{London Gazette |issue=29886 |date=1 January 1917 |page=43 |supp=y}} 5. ^1 {{London Gazette |issue=30813 |date=26 July 1918 |page=8767 |supp=y}} 6. ^1 {{London Gazette |issue=30450 |date=1 January 1918 |page=27 |supp=y}} 7. ^1 {{London Gazette |issue=34585 |date=2 January 1939 |page=8 |supp=y}} 8. ^1 {{London Gazette |issue=36033 |date=2 June 1943 |page=2419 |supp=y}} 9. ^Rotol-Messier Apprentices Rewarded Flight, 20 May 1955 10. ^1 {{London Gazette |issue=40827 |date=10 July 1956 |page=4025 }} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p7951.htm#i79503 |publisher=The Peerage|title= Lord Weeks|accessdate=20 April 2018}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15425586.Obituary__Henry_Walter_Plunkett_Ernle_Erle_Drax/ |publisher=Daily Echo|title=Obituary of Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax|date= 21 July 2017|accessdate=20 April 2018}} | title = Baron Weeks | years = 1956–1960 }}{{s-non | reason = Extinct }}{{end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Weeks, Ronald Weeks, 1st Baron}} 9 : 1960 deaths|1890 births|Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom|British Army generals of World War II|Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|Companions of the Distinguished Service Order|Recipients of the Military Cross|Rifle Brigade officers |
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