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British Army general (1886–1954)
Lieutenant-General Laurence Carr, CB, DSO, OBE (14 April 1886 – 15 April 1954) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War.
Laurence Carr was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in 1904.[1] He served in the First World War in France and Belgium.[1] After the war he attended the Staff College, Camberley, and was deployed to India in 1920.[1] He then held an appointment as GSO2 with Eastern Command, India, which he relinquished in January 1923 in order to take up a new position as an instructor, graded as a GSO2, at the Staff College, Quetta, the following month.[2]
From 1931 Carr was a General Staff Officer at the War Office. He moved on to join the staff at the Imperial Defence College in 1934.[1] He was appointed commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade in 1936 and deployed to Palestine and then became Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1938.[1]
Carr also served in the Second World War, initially as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff and then as General Officer Commanding I Corps, which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force, deployed to France and Belgium in 1940.[1] He became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Command in 1941.[1] His last appointment was as Senior Military Assistant to the Ministry of Supply in 1942; he retired in 1944.[1]
Carr was married to Elizabeth Montgomery Carr.[3]
- Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnesley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 1844150496.
