Ronald Okeden Alexander
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Major-General Ronald Okeden Alexander {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CB|DSO}} (7 August 1888 – 28 July 1949) was a military officer in the Canadian Army, a District Officer, Commanding District No.4, Montreal (1936–38), Number 2 Toronto (1938–40) and Inspector General for Central Canada (1942–46).Obituary in The Times, Major-General R.O. Alexander, 29 July 1949, p.9[https://books.google.com/books?id=je2Jz_1c21sC&dq=ronald+okeden+alexander&pg=PA83] Imperial Vancouver Island:Who Was Who 1850-1950, by JF Bosher, 2010{{Cite web|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-221814|title=Alexander, Maj.-Gen. Ronald Okeden, (7 Aug. 1888–28 July 1949)|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U221814|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}} He commanded the Western coast defences of Canada during World War II.
Military career
Alexander was the son of J.A. Alexander, Indian Civil Service, and was born in Kandy, Ceylon on 7 August 1888. He was educated at Bedford Modern School,Bedford Modern School of the Black and Red by Andrew Underwood (1981)The Eagle, Vol. XXVIII, no. 1 (Christmas, 1950), p. 89The Canadian Who’s Who, Vol. IV, 1948 On 21 June 1910 he was commissioned as an officer into The Royal Canadian Regiment.{{cite web|url=https://www.unithistories.com/officers/CdnArmy_officers.html#Alexander_RO|title=Canadian Army officer histories|publisher=Unit Histories|access-date=2022-01-04}}
During World War I he was mentioned in despatches three times throughout the conflict and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1917.{{London Gazette|issue=13033|page=29|date=1 January 1917|city=e}}
Remaining in the army during the interwar period, where he attended the Staff College, Camberley and then served as Professor of Tactics at the Royal Military College of Canada from September 1924−December 1927, he also active during World War II he was Inspector General of the armed forces in Central Canada and was a made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1944.
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He died at the age of sixty in Saanich, British Columbia on 27 July 1949.
References
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External links
- [https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/ronald-okeden-alexander-fonds Ronald Okeden Alexander fonds] at University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives
- [https://www.unithistories.com/officers/CdnArmy_officers.html#Alexander_RO Canadian Army Officers 1939–1945]
- [https://generals.dk/general/Alexander/Ronald_Okeden/Canada.html Generals of World War II]
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