Bot at 13:15, 20 March 2022

2022-03-20T13:15:18Z

New page

{{Short description|British Army officer (1885–1970)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}}
{{Infobox military person
|honorific_prefix=[[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|Brigadier]]
|name = Harold Kingsley
|honorific_suffix=[[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]]
|image =
|caption =
|birth_date ={{Birth date|1885|12|23|df=yes}}
|death_date ={{Death date and age|1970|4|15|1885|12|23|df=yes}}
|placeofburial_label =
|placeofburial =
|birth_place =
|death_place =
|placeofburial_coordinates = 
|nickname =
|birth_name =
|allegiance ={{flag|United Kingdom|23px}}
|branch ={{army|United Kingdom}}<br />{{flag|British India|23px}}
|serviceyears =
|rank = [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|Brigadier]]
|servicenumber =
|unit =
|commands =
|battles =
|battles_label =
|awards =[[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]]
|relations =
|laterwork =
}}

[[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|Brigadier]] '''Harold Evelyn William Bell Kingsley''' [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (23 December 1885 – 15 April 1970) was Commandant of the [[Indian Military Academy]] (1936-1939) and [[Aide-de-camp]] to King [[George VI]].<ref name="oup.com">{{Cite web|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-55519|title=Kingsley, Brigadier Harold (Evelyn William Bell), (1885–15 April 1970), late 4th The Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U55519|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R44XAQAAMAAJ&q=Harold+Evelyn+William+Bell+Kingsley|title=Great Britain and the East|work=google.co.uk|year=1939|access-date=3 July 2015}}</ref><ref>[[The Times]], 14 January 1939</ref><ref name="auto">''Kelly’s Handbook To The Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1962'', Published by Kelly’s Directories Limited 1962</ref>

==Early life==
Harold Evelyn William Bell Kingsley was born 23 December 1885 in [[Nenagh]], [[Ireland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ancestry.co.uk|title=Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk|work=ancestry.co.uk|access-date=3 July 2015}}</ref> He was the son of Col. William Henry Bell Kingsley [[Order of the Bath|CB]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U187844|title=KINGSLEY, William Henry Bell (1835 - 1901), JP for County Tipperary|work=oup.com|date=December 2007|access-date=3 July 2015}}</ref> and his wife, Mrs Kingsley, of River View, [[Nenagh]], Co. Tipperary.<ref name="oup.com"/> He was educated at [[Bedford Modern School]] and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].<ref name="oup.com"/><ref name="auto"/>

==Career==
After Sandhurst, Kingsley joined the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]].<ref name="mocavo.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/The-Half-Yearly-Army-List-for-the-Period-Ending-31st-December-1938-Volume-July-December-1938/665994/55|title=The Half-Yearly Army List for the Period Ending 31st December 1938|work=Mocavo|access-date=3 July 2015}}</ref> He was appointed Captain on 18 January 1914 and Major on 18 January 1920.<ref name="mocavo.co.uk"/> During [[World War I]], Kingsley served in Mesopotamia (1916–18) and in the Balkans (1918).<ref name="oup.com"/> He served in Russia, and [[Trans-Caspia]] (1919), the Black Sea and Turkey (1919–20) and Waziristan (1921–24).<ref name="oup.com"/> He was made Colonel in 1933.<ref name="oup.com"/>

Kingsley was Deputy Military Secretary, Army Headquarters, India (1933–36).<ref name="oup.com"/><ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34014/page/318/data.pdf ''The London Gazette'' 12 January 1934, Issue 34014, p. 318]</ref> He was Commandant of the [[Indian Military Academy]] between 1936 and 1939 and [[Aide-de-camp|ADC]] to the King (1938–39).<ref name="oup.com"/><ref name="mocavo.co.uk"/> He retired in 1939.<ref name="oup.com"/><ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34755/supplement/8389/data.pdf ''Supplement to The London Gazette'', 15 December 1939, Issue 34755, p. 8389]</ref>

==Awards and honours==
Kingsley was [[Mentioned in dispatches|mentioned in despatches]] during [[World War I]] and on service in Waziristan (1921–24).<ref name="oup.com"/> He was made [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] in 1917 and [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] in 1939.<ref name="oup.com"/>

==Personal life==
Kinglsey was a member of the [[Army and Navy Club]].<ref name="oup.com"/> In 1926 he married Hon. Olive Mary Kitson, daughter of [[James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale]]; they lived at Warnford House, [[Warnford]], [[Hampshire]].<ref name="oup.com"/><ref>Obituary of Hon. Mrs Harold Kingsley, [[The Times]], 17 June 1964</ref> There were no children from the marriage and Kingsley died in [[Hampshire]] on 15 April 1970.<ref name="oup.com"/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kingsley, Harold}}
[[Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order]]
[[Category:People educated at Bedford Modern School]]
[[Category:1885 births]]
[[Category:1970 deaths]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Commandants of Indian Military Academy]]

Harold Kingsley - Revision history

Bot at 13:15, 20 March 2022