Arthur Parsons

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons KCIE CBE DSO (1884–1966) was a British Indian Army officer and administrator in British India. He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire Volunteer Light Infantry as an acting second lieutenant in 1904, and was given a full second lieutenancy in 1906. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1909 and to captain in 1915. He was a major by 1923, in which year he was awarded the DSO to add to his OBE. He was appointed a CBE in 1927 and was knighted with the KCIE in 1938, by which time he was a lieutenant-colonel. He served as governor of the North-West Frontier Province in 1939.^[1]

References

↑ Provinces of British India

External links

DSO citation. The London Gazette.

Political offices
Preceded by Ronald Wingate	Chief Commissioner of Balochistan 1936–1937	Succeeded by Ronald Wingate
Preceded by Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe	Chief Commissioner of Balochistan 1938–1939	Succeeded by Sir Herbert Aubrey Francis Metcalfe
Preceded by Sir George Cunningham	Governor of the North-West Frontier Province 1939	Succeeded by Sir George Cunningham

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 66008180

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, April 01, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.