John Minshull-Ford

Major-General

John Minshull-Ford

CB DSO MC
Minshull-Ford in 1940
Born12 May 1881
Died1 April 1948 (aged 66)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch
 British Army
Service years
1900–1940
Rank
Major-General
UnitRoyal Welsh Fusiliers
Commands1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment
5th Infantry Brigade
44th (Home Counties) Division
Conflicts
World War I
World War II
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order
Military Cross

Major-General John Randle Minshull-Ford CB DSO MC (12 May 1881 – 1 April 1948) was a senior British Army officer who briefly served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey before the German Occupation in 1940.

Military career

Educated at Twyford School,[1] Minshull-Ford was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1900.[2]

He served in World War I as commander of the 1st Bn of his regiment in the British Expeditionary Force and was wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915.[2] He was promoted to major in September[3] and continued his war service as a brigade commander, having been promoted to temporary brigadier general in February 1916,[4] in the Home Forces and then later in France.[2]

After the War he was briefly a brigade commander in the British Army of the Rhine and then served as commanding officer of 1 Bn South Staffordshire Regiment from 1925.[2] He was appointed commander of 5th Infantry Brigade at Aldershot Command in 1930 and General Officer Commanding 44th (Home Counties) Division in April 1934 before retiring in April 1938.[2][5]

He was briefly Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1940 just before the German Occupation.[2]

Family

In 1912 he married Dorothy Harmood-Banner, a daughter of the Liverpool accountant and M.P., Sir John Sutherland Harmood-Banner.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Twyford School Archived 24 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Minshull-Ford, John". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  3. ↑ "No. 29284". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 September 1915. p. 8806.
  4. ↑ "No. 29495". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 February 1916. p. 2332.
  5. ↑ "Minshull-Ford, John". Generals.dk. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  6. ↑ Bosman Family Tree
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