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WEMYSS, General Sir (Henry) Colville (Barclay), KBE, 1941; DSO 1914; MC 1916
Born 26 April 1891; 2nd s of late Alexander Wemyss; m 1919, Vera, y d of late Alfred Mozley and Mrs Russell, of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire; one s one d ; died 2 April 1959
late Roy. Corps of Signals
Education: Bedford; RMA, Woolwich
Career: Entered Royal Engineers, 1910; Bt Major, 1918; Major and Bt Lt-Col 1926; Lt-Col 1933; Col 1935; Maj.-Gen. 1939; Acting Lt-Gen. 1940; Lt-Gen. 1941; General, 1945; served European War, 1914–18 (despatches five times, DSO, MC); Assistant Adjutant-General, War Office, 1935–37; Imperial Defence College, 1938; Director of Mobilisation, War Office, 1939; Adjutant-General to the Forces, 1940–41; Head of British Army Staff in Washington, 1941–42; Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, 1942–46; retired, 1946; Col Comdt Royal Corps of Signals, 1944–48. Director, Brewers’ Society, 1947–57