Arthur Dowler

Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Arnhold Bullick Dowler, (16 July 1895 – 14 November 1963) was a senior British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding East Africa Command from 1948 to 1951.

Military career Educated at Tonbridge School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Dowler was, after graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in July 1914, commissioned as a second lieutenant into the East Surrey Regiment. He served in the First World War with the 2nd Battalion, East Surreys in France and Belgium. subsequently commanded the 2nd Infantry Brigade.

After the war Dowler was appointed chief of staff of the British Army of the Rhine, before becoming director of infantry at the War Office in 1947. and made GOC East Africa Command from 1948 to 1951 and subsequently colonel of the East Surrey Regiment from July 1946, when he succeeded General Sir Richard Foster, until his resignation from that role in 1954. He retired from the army in December 1951. In May 1958 he became deputy lieutenant of Surrey.