John Woodall

Lieutenant-General Sir John Dane Woodall, (19 April 1897 − 7 May 1985) was a senior British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District from 1952 to 1955. He was Governor of Bermuda from 1955 to 1959.

Military career After attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Woodall was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in July 1915. In the First World War, he served on Gallipoli and was a Staff Captain in Salonika and the Black Sea.

After the war, Woodall became Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for the Black Sea Area before undertaking the same role in Turkey. and in 1937 he became an instructor in Gunnery at Northern Command and in 1932 he transferred to become a Staff Officer, Royal Artillery at Western Command.

Woodall served in the Second World War, initially as a General Staff Officer with the British Expeditionary Force and then as a Brigadier on the General Staff.

After the Second World War, Woodall was appointed Director of Manpower at the War Office before moving on to be Vice Adjutant-General to the Forces in 1949. He became General Officer Commanding (GOC) Northern Ireland in 1952 and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda in 1955.