Collection KIRBY - KIRBY, Maj Gen Stanley Woodburn (1895-1968)

Born 1895; educated at Charterhouse; commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1914; served in World War One, in France and Macedonia, 1914-1918; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1917; Assistant Instructor, Survey School of Military Engineering, 1920-1923; service in Singapore, 1923-1926; awarded OBE, 1927; Specially Employed, War Office, 1927-1928; Maj, 1929; graduated fromStaff College, Camberley, 1930; General Staff Officer 3, War Office, 1931-1932; General Staff Officer 2, War Office, 1933-1935; Brevet Lt Col, 1934; Imperial Defence College, 1936; Col, 1936; Assistant Master General of the Ordnance, 1937-1940; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; temporary Brig, 1939-1941; awarded CIE, 1940; Deputy Master General of the Ordnance, General Headquarters, India,1940-1941; Maj Gen, 1941; Director of Staff Duties, India, 1941-1942; Deputy Chief of the General Staff, India, 1942-1943; awarded CB, 1943; Director of Civil Affairs, War Office, 1943-1944; Deputy Chief of Staff, Control Commission for Germany, 1945; official historian of the war against Japan; retired, 1947; awarded CMG, 1947; died 1968. Publications: Five tactical schemes. With solutions. Suitable for preparation for promotion and Staff College entrance examinations (Clowes, London, 1931); Administrative schemes. With solutions. Suitable for preparation for promotion and Staff College entrance examinations, and for practice in applying administrative principles (Clowes, London, 1932); with others, The War against Japan. History of the Second World War. United Kingdom Military Series, Vols I-IV (HMSO, London, 1957-1969); Singapore, the chain of disaster (Cassell, London, 1971).