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|name=Arthur Wilmot Wadeson Holworthy<br />
|birth_date=12 December 1897<br />
|death_date={{death year and age|1983|1897}}<br />
|birth_place=[[Shanghai]], China<ref>https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/arthur-wilmot-wadeson-holworthy-24-1bczhp8</ref><br />
|death_place=[[Ledbury]], [[Herefordshire]], England<ref>https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/arthur-wilmot-wadeson-holworthy-24-1bczhp8</ref><br />
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|image= File:Generalarthurholworthy.jpg<br />
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|nickname="Hol"<br />
|allegiance={{flag|United Kingdom}}<br />
|branch=[[File:British Raj Red Ensign.svg|26px]] [[British Indian Army]]<br />
|serviceyears=1917&ndash;1947<br />
|servicenumber=279566<br />
|rank=[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major general]]<br />
|commands=[[10th Indian Infantry Brigade]]<br/>[[7th Indian Infantry Brigade]]<br/>[[6th Infantry Division (India)|6th Indian Infantry Division]]<br/>[[4th Infantry Division (India)|4th Indian Infantry Division]]<br />
|unit=[[3 Gorkha Rifles|3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles]]<br />
|battles=[[World War I]]<br/>[[World War II]]<br />
|awards= [[Distinguished Service Order]]<br/>[[Military Cross]]<br />
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[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] '''Arthur Wilmot Wadeson Holworthy''' [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]], [[Military Cross|MC]] (12 December 1897 – 1983) was a senior [[British Indian Army]] [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]] who fought in both [[World War I]] and [[World War II]].<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Holworthy was commissioned as a [[second lieutenant]] on 16 June 1917 during [[World War I]] and appointed to the 1st Battalion [[3 Gorkha Rifles|3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles]] on 29 June 1917. He was promoted to [[lieutenant]] on 18 June 1918 he was awarded the [[Military Cross]] for gallantry in [[Kurdistan]] in 1919.<ref>London Gazette 12 February 1920</ref> Promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] on 18 June 1921 he became an instructor at the Army School of Education on 10 June 1929 and then attended the [[Staff College, Camberley]] from 1933 to 1934. He became a company commander in the 1st Battalion, [[7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles]] on 17 June 1936 and the Brigade Major for the Jullunder Brigade Area on 15 June 1936, being promoted to the substantive rank of [[major]] on 1 July 1939 and Brevet [[lieutenant-colonel]] on 1 January 1939.<br />
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Holworthy served in [[World War II]] as Assistant Commandant of the Junior Commanders School in India from 13 July 1940 to 28 November 1940 before becoming Commander of the Indian 10th Infantry Brigade in 1942 and Commander of the 7th Infantry Brigade in [[North Africa]] later that year.<ref name=dk>[http://www.generals.dk/general/Holworthy/Alan_Wilmot_Wadeson/Great_Britain.html Generals.dk]</ref> Promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant-colonel on 18 June 1943 and acting [[major-general]] on 15 June 1943, he became [[General Officer Commanding]] [[Indian 6th Infantry Division]] in Persia in 1943.<ref name=dk/><br />
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Holworthy was promoted to war substantive [[colonel]] and temporary major-general on 15 June 1944 and became General Officer Commanding [[4th Infantry Division (India)|Indian 4th Infantry Division]] in Italy that year.<ref name=dk/> He retired as a colonel and was granted the honorary rank of major general on 15 April 1947.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Iraqforce]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*{{cite book| first=Nick| last=Smart| title=Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War| isbn=1844150496| year=2005| location=Barnesley| publisher=Pen & Sword}}<br />
*{{cite book | first=Compton|last=MacKenzie |authorlink=Compton Mackenzie| title=Eastern Epic| publisher=Chatto & Windus, London | year=1951 | pages=623 pages}}<br />
*{{cite web |url=http://www.ordersofbattle.com/PersonData.aspx?PerX=1172&Tab=App |title=Orders of Battle.com |accessdate=28 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024424/http://www.ordersofbattle.com/PersonData.aspx?PerX=1172&Tab=App |archive-date=30 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.generals.dk/general/Holworthy/Alan_Wilmot_Wadeson/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]<br />
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