Louis Bols

Infobox Military Person
name=Sir Louis Jean Bols
lived=23 November 1867 – 13 September 1930
placeofbirth= Cape Town, South Africa
placeofdeath=


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allegiance= flag|United Kingdom
serviceyears=1887–1920
rank=Lieutenant-General
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battles= Second Boer War
World War I
awards=Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order
Légion d'honneur (France)
Order of the Rising Sun (Japan)
Order of the Redeemer (Greece)
Order of the Nile (Egypt)
Order of St Vladimir
Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Jean Bols KCB, KCMG, DSO (Cape Town November 23, 1867 – September 13, 1930, Bath) was educated at Lancing College in Sussex. He was a distinguished British military officer. He served as Edmund Allenby's Third Army Chief of Staff in the Western front and Sinai and Palestine campaigns of World War I.

From June 1919 - June 1920 he served as the Chief Administrator of Palestine, and signed over power to Herbert Samuels, the first British High Commissioner of Palestine, in an often-quoted document: ‘Received from Major-General Sir Louis J. Bols K.C.B.—One Palestine, complete’.C V Owen, ‘Bols, Sir Louis Jean (1867–1930)’, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); online edn, May 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31947, accessed 20 Aug 2007] ]

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* [http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/bols.htm Louis Jean Bols] bio at firstworldwar.com
* [http://angloboerwar.com/DSO/b/bols_lj.htm Bols, LJ ] at angloboerwar.com