About Alec Bishop
Lived 1898 – 1984 (aged 85–86). Alec Bishop was a military personnel.
Major-General Sir William Henry Alexander Bishop, (20 June 1897 – 15 May 1984) was a British Army officer and administrator.
Military career Bishop was born in Plymstock, Devon, the eldest child of Walter Edward Bishop and Eliza Knowles. He was educated at Plymouth College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Dorset Regiment and served in India from 1919 to 1925. He also saw service in Mesopotamia and Palestine. After that he was in the War Office and the Colonial Office.
Sir Alec died in 1984 in Hastings, East Sussex, aged 86.
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British Army Major-General & administrator
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Alec Bishop was born in 1898.
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Alec Bishop died on 15 May 1984.
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