Sir John Laurie, 6th Baronet

Major-General Sir John Emilius Laurie, 6th Baronet, (12 August 1892 − 10 January 1983) was a British Army officer.

Military career Educated at Eton College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Laurie was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders in February 1912.

Serving in the First World War in France, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1916, the citation for which reads:

He was awarded a Bar to his DSO in 1919, when an acting lieutenant colonel commanding the 1/6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. The citation for the Bar reads:

Between the wars, Laurie became commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders in 1934, commanding officer of the British troops in the Tientsin area of China in 1939 and commander of the 157th Brigade in 1940. He was sent to France with the 52nd (Lowland) Division in June 1940, and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services. Laurie was appointed General Officer Commanding of that division in March 1941 before becoming commandant of the Combined Operations Training Centre at Inveraray in 1942. He retired from the British Army as a major general in 1945.

Laurie held the honorary position of colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders from 1947 to 1957.