Leslie Lockhart
{{Short description|British army officer}}
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| branch =British Army
| serviceyears =1915−1952
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| rank =Major-General
| unit =Royal Field Artillery
| commands =307th Infantry Brigade
5th Anti-Aircraft Group
East Anglian District
| battles =First World War
Second World War
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Major-General Leslie Keith Lockhart {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=|CB|CBE|MC}} (5 June 1897 – 27 March 1966) was a British Army officer.
Military career
After attending and later graduating from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Lockhart was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery on 28 July 1915.{{London Gazette|issue=29242|page=7335|date=27 July 1915}} He was awarded the Military Cross for services in the First World War.{{London Gazette|issue=29886|page=37|date=29 December 2016|supp=y}}
Remaining in the army during the interwar period, he attended the Staff College, Camberley, alongside future general officers such as William Dimoline, John Eldridge and Ashton Wade, from 1933 to 1934.{{London Gazette|issue=33904|page=442|date=20 January 1933}}
He served in the Second World War as a colonel on the British Army Staff at Washington, D.C. from 1940, as Deputy Director of Royal Artillery at the War Office from October 1942 and as commander of an Anti-Aircraft Brigade in North-West Europe from 1944.{{cite web|url=http://www.generals.dk/general/Lockhart/Leslie_Keith/Great_Britain.html|title=Lockhart, Leslie Keith|publisher=Generals.dk|accessdate=7 June 2020}} He then served as Deputy General Officer Commanding the Anti-Aircraft Units of 21st Army Group in North-West Europe from early 1945 and as commander of 307th Infantry Brigade from May 1945.
After the war he became commander of 5th Anti-Aircraft Group on the East Coast in 1947 and General Officer Commanding East Anglian District in May 1951 before retiring in December 1952.{{cite web|url=https://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf|title=Army Commands|accessdate=7 June 2020}}
References
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External links
- [https://generals.dk/general/Lockhart/Leslie_Keith/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]
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{{s-ttl|title=GOC East Anglian District|years=1951–1952}}
{{s-aft|after=Roger Bower}}
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Category:Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Recipients of the Military Cross
Category:Royal Field Artillery officers
Category:British Army major generals
Category:Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley
Category:British Army personnel of World War I