Kirke, Walter Mervyn St George, Sir, 1877-1949, Knight, army officer

1896-1940 army officer; 1896 Royal Artillery; 1901 captain; 1901-1902 Waziristan campaign; 1905-1906 command, punitive expedition in south Chin Hills; 1912-1914 GSO third grade, War Office; 1914 GSO second grade, War Office; 1914-1918 served in the First World War; 1914 brevet-major; 1914 major; 1915 brevet lieutenant-colonel; 1917 brevet-colonel; 1918-1922 deputy director of military operations;1922–1924 Colonel on the Staff, G. S. Aldershot; 1924 major-general; 1924–1925 head of British naval, military, and air force mission to Finland; 1926-1929 deputy chief of the general staff in India; 1929-1931 command, 5th division and Catterick area; 1931 lieutenant-general; 1933-1936 general officer, commanding-in-chief, western command; 1936 general; 1936-1939 director-general, territorial army; 1937-1940 ADC General to the King; 1939 inspector of home defences; 1939-1940 commander of the home forces.

Honours: 1914-1918 Order of the Crown of Belgium, Officer Legion of Honour, French and Belgium Croix de Guerre and White Eagle of Serbia; 1916 DSO; 1918 CMG; 1919 CB; 1934 KCB; 1939 GCB, Grand Cross and Finnish Meritorious Service Medal

Epithet: army officer

Title: Knight