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Ernest Lewin

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Ernest Lewin
Born(1879-04-07)7 April 1879
Died10 May 1950(1950-05-10) (aged 71)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
Years of service1900–1938
1939–1941
RankMajor General
CommandsPortsmouth Area (1939–40)
55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division (1935–38)
Malaya Command (1934–35)
Battles / warsFirst World War
Second World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order

Major General Ernest Ord Lewin, CB, CMG, DSO (7 April 1879 – 10 May 1950) was a senior British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding Malaya Command from 1934 to 1935.

Military career

Lewin was educated at Winchester College, for which he played cricket,[1] and King's College, Cambridge.[2] He was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery as a second lieutenant on 26 May 1900, and was promoted to lieutenant on 9 April 1902.[3] In his early career, he served as a Staff Officer in India and in the United Kingdom, before become an adjutant in 1914.[4]

Lewin served in the First World War as a General Staff Officer in France.[4] In 1927 he was appointed Brigadier Royal Artillery at Aldershot Command and in 1934 he became General Officer Commanding Malaya Command.[4] He was made commander of the 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division in 1935 and retired in 1938.[4] He was re-employed during the Second World War as General Officer Commanding Portsmouth Area in 1939 and then as Major-General in Charge of Administration for Southern Command in 1940; he retired again in 1941.[4]

Family

Lewin married and had one son and one daughter.[5]

References

  1. ^ Cricket Archive
  2. ^ "Lewin, Ernest Ord (LWN897EO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ "No. 27444". The London Gazette. 20 June 1902. p. 4051.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Ernest Lewin". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  5. ^ Noli Irritare Leones
Military offices
Preceded by GOC Malaya Command
1934–1935 		Succeeded by
Preceded by GOC 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division
1935–1938 		Succeeded by
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