Thomas Hutton - Definition

Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton (1890–1981)

• 1890 born;
• educated at Rossall and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
• 1909 commissioned into the Army as 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Artillery
• World War I
• 1914–1918 service on the Western Front
  • 1915 promoted Captain
  • 1918 prompted Brevet Major
  • 1918 General Staff Officer, Grade 3
  • 1918–1919 Major in a Brigade
• 1919–1920 Assistant Military Secretary
• 1923–1924 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office
• 1924–1926 General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Eastern Command
• 1927 promoted Major
• 1927–1930 Military Assistant to Chief of Imperial General Staff,
• 1930 promoted Colonel
• 1933–1936 General Staff Officer Grade 1, Military Operations,
• 1936 served in Palestine,
• 1936–1938 General Staff Officer Grade 1, 1 Division
• 1938 promoted Major-General
• World War II
  • 1938–1940 General Officer Commanding Western Independent District, India
  • 1940–1941 Deputy Chief of General Staff, Army HQ, India
  • 1941 prompted Lieutenant-General and Chief of General Staff, India
  • 1942 General Officer Commanding Burma, Burma Command
  • 1942–1944 Secretary of War Resources and Reconstruction Committees of Council, India
  • 1942–(1952) Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery
  • 1944 retired from the army
• 1944–1946 Officiating Secretary, Viceroy's Executive Council
• 1947–1949 Regional Officer, Ministry of Health
• 1949–1953 General Manager, Anglo-American Council on Productivity
• 1953–1957 Director, British Productivity Council
• 1957–1964 Chairman of Organisation and Methods Training Council
• 1981 died