Administrators of Palestine - Evelyn Barker, Wyndham Deedes, Charles Robert Ashbee, Herbert Dowbiggin, Charles Tegart, Louis Bols, Ronald Storrs (Paperback)

Chapters: Evelyn Barker, Wyndham Deedes, Charles Robert Ashbee, Herbert Dowbiggin, Charles Tegart, Louis Bols, Ronald Storrs, William James Fitzgerald, Alec Kirkbride, Norman Bentwich, Austen Harrison, Lewis Yelland Andrews, Edward Keith-Roach. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: General Sir Evelyn Hugh Barker KCB KBE DSO MC (18941983) was a British Army general in World War II, and commander of British forces in the Mandate Palestine from 1946 to 1947. Barker is remembered for his order, following the King David Hotel bombing, that (We) will be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes as much as any, by striking at their pockets and showing our contempt of them. He was the son of a high-ranking officer, Major-General Sir George Barker. In 1913, Evelyn Barker was commissioned with King's Royal Rifle Corps, and the next year sent to the French theater of World War I. He fought in France, took part in the Thessaloniki operation, was wounded and decorated. In 1919, together with King's Royal Rifle Corps, Barker took part in the British military expedition against the Bolsheviks in the south of the former Russian Empire. As commander of the 2nd battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, Barker served in Palestine during the Palestinian Arab Revolt of 1936 39, returning to the UK in 1938 to take command of 10th Infantry Brigade. In October 1939, shortly after the start of World War II he took his brigade, one of three forming 4th Infantry Division, to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force. After the defeat of the Allies on the continent, he was evacuated from Dunkirk with the remaining troops to Britain where he assumed command over the 54th (East Anglian) Division. In April 1943 Barker took over the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division, whi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1143283