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词条 Harold Parsons
释义

  1. Military career

  2. Namesake

  3. References

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Major-General Sir Harold Daniel Edmund Parsons KCMG, CB (3 July 1863 – 13 February 1925) was a British Army officer.

Military career

Parsons was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment on 10 May 1882.[1] He saw active service during the Third Anglo-Burmese War and then, as an ordnance officer, during the Second Boer War.[1] He also served in the First World War and then became Principal Ordnance Officer in 1920 before retiring in 1923.[1]

Parsons was appointed Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 18 October 1924,[2] four months before his death in February 1925, aged 61.

Namesake

Parsons Barracks at Donnington near Telford, Shropshire was named for him.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/PARSONS3.shtml|title=Sir Harold Parsons|publisher=Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives|accessdate=26 November 2014}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/personalities/Edmund_Parsons/Edmund_Parsons.shtml|title=Major-General Sir Harold Daniel Edmund Parsons, K.C.M.G., C.B,|publisher=Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Association|accessdate=26 November 2014}}
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