| 词条 | Lawrence Parsons (British Army officer) |
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| name =Sir Lawrence Parsons | image = | caption = | birth_date =1850 | death_date =1923 | placeofburial_label = | placeofburial = | birth_place = | death_place = | placeofburial_coordinates = | nickname = | allegiance ={{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | branch = British Army | serviceyears =1870-1909 1914-1916 | rank =Lieutenant-General | unit = | commands = 8th Division 6th Division 16th (Irish) Division | battles = Second Boer War World War I | awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath | relations = | laterwork = }} Lieutenant General Sir Lawrence Worthington Parsons KCB (1850–1923) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 6th Division. Military careerBrought up in Parsonstown in King's County,[1] Parsons was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1870.[2] He served in the Second Boer War and took part in the Battle of Colenso, the Battle of Spion Kop and the Relief of Ladysmith.[2] He was appointed Inspector General of Artillery in India in 1903, General Officer Commanding 8th Division in Southern Ireland in 1906[3] and General Officer Commanding 6th Division also in Southern Ireland in 1907 before retiring in 1909.[2] He was recalled as General Officer Commanding 16th (Irish) Division in 1914 at the start of World War I and retired again in 1916.[2] FamilyIn 1880 he married Florence Belinda Graves.[4] References1. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=liCtA0XnqXUC&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=%22Lawrence+Worthington+Parsons%22&source=bl&ots=2MIWZuG_o6&sig=2dEPc-OObrnZepWCTgIIXBU5UCM&hl=en&ei=4rOZTrjMMdLD8QPq25HqCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFoQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Lawrence%20Worthington%20Parsons%22&f=false Irishmen or English soldiers?: the times and world of a southern Catholic By Thomas P. Dooley, p.191] {{s-start}}{{s-mil}}{{s-bef|before=William Knox}}{{s-ttl|title=General Officer Commanding the 8th Division|years=1906–1907}}{{s-aft|after=Post Disbanded}}2. ^1 2 3 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives 3. ^Army Commands {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |date=2015-07-05 }} 4. ^The Peerage.com |-{{s-bef|before=Theodore Stephenson}}{{s-ttl|title=General Officer Commanding the 6th Division|years=1907–1909}}{{s-aft|after=Charles Metcalfe}}{{S-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Parsons, Lawrence}} 5 : 1850 births|1923 deaths|British Army generals of World War I|Royal Artillery officers|Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath |
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