Harold Carrington

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Military career

Harold Carrington was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1901; he served in the Second Boer War between 1901 and 1902 and then transferred to the Royal Horse Artillery in 1908.^[1] He served during the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1916.^[2]

Carrington remained in the army after the war, attending the Staff College, Camberley in 1920.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He then became a General Staff Officer with the 4th Infantry Division, before moving on to become Commander, of Royal Artillery for the division in 1932.^[1] In 1936 he became a major general with command of the Royal Artillery at Army Headquarters in India.^[1] In 1939 he became Deputy Adjutant General at the War Office and in 1940 he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle: he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1941 New Year Honours,^[3] before retiring later that year.^[1]

Carrington was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1940 to 1950.^[1]

In retirement Carrington worked for the Ministry of Supply from 1942 to 1945.^[1] He was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk from 1953 to 1954.^[4]

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