John Minshull-Ford

Major-General John Randle Minshull-Ford (12 May 1881 – 1 April 1948) was a senior British Army officer who briefly served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey before the German Occupation in 1940.

Military career Educated at Twyford School, Minshull-Ford was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1900.

He served in World War I as commander of the 1st Bn of his regiment in the British Expeditionary Force and was wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915. and continued his war service as a brigade commander, having been promoted to temporary brigadier general in February 1916, in the Home Forces and then later in France. He was commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade at Aldershot Command in 1930 and General Officer Commanding 44th (Home Counties) Division in April 1934 before retiring in April 1938.

He was briefly Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1940 just before the German Occupation.