Arthur Parsons
British Indian Army officer
About Arthur Parsons
Lived 1884 – 1966 (aged 81–82).
Major-General Sir Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons (1884–1966) was a British Indian Army officer and administrator in British India. He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire Volunteer Light Infantry as an acting second lieutenant in 1904, and was given a full second lieutenancy in 1906. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1909 and to captain in 1915. He was a major by 1923, in which year he was awarded the DSO to add to his OBE. He was appointed a CBE in 1927 and was knighted with the KCIE in 1938, by which time he was a lieutenant-colonel. He served as governor of the North-West Frontier Province in 1939.
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British Indian Army officer
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Arthur Parsons was born in 1884.
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Arthur Parsons died in 1966.
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