Thomas Jacomb Hutton

Infobox Military Person
name= Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton
lived= 1890 - 1981
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allegiance= British Army
serviceyears= 1909-1944
rank= Lieutenant general
commands= Burma Command
Royal Artillery
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battles= World War I
World War II
* Burma Campaign
awards= Military Cross with bar
Order of the Bath
Order of the Indian Empire
laterwork=Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton, MC, KCB, KCIE was a British general who lived from 1890 to 1981.

* born 1890;
* educated at Rossall School 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 the 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 promoted 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

Further reading

* [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/cats/hutton/hu90-0.htm LHCMA catalogue: Papers of Lt Gen Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton, MC, KCB, KCIE (1890-1981)] , King's College London Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. (URL accessed June 9, 2006)
* [http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,766381,00.html "By Air and Foot"] , "Time magazine", February 16, 1942. British versus Japanese, Rangoon; archive article) )URL accessed June 9, 2006)