Brian Kimmins

Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Charles Hannam Kimmins, (30 July 1899 – 15 November 1979) was a British Army officer who served as the General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.

Military career Kimmins was born in Hendon, Middlesex (now North London), the son of psychologist Charles William Kimmins and Dame Grace Kimmins. He was the older brother of Anthony Kimmins.

After graduating from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich on 28 September 1917, Kimmins was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Field Artillery of the British Army, during the latter phases of the First World War.

After the war he served in India and Egypt and became aide-de-camp to the High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan on 7 November 1928. and became adjutant at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1930 and brigade major for the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division's 147th Infantry Brigade in 1935. He was then, after being promoted to the acting rank of colonel and brigadier in December 1941,