Stanley Kirby

Major-General Stanley Woodburn Kirby, (13 February 1895 − 19 July 1968) was a British Army officer who served in both World Wars.

Personal Stanley Kirby was the son of Sir Woodburn Kirby, born in the Hendon district of London. He was educated at Charterhouse School. Kirby was married twice; first in 1924 to Rosabel Gell who died in 1954 – the couple had one son. His second marriage was in 1955 to Mrs Joan Catherine.

Military career Kirby was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 17 July 1914 and served during the First World War in Egypt (1915), France (21 February to 21 October 1915) and Macedonia (1 December 1915 to 7 September 1917). He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross and Bar and finished the war as a captain. and was director of staff duties from 1 October 1941 and became deputy chief of the general staff, India, in 1942. Kirby returned to Britain and he was appointed as director of civil affairs, at the War Office in June 1943, until April 1944. In 1945, he was deputy chief of staff (organisation), British Element, Control Commission for Germany. Working as a historian from 1950, he was a joint author of The War Against Japan, the volumes in the official history series History of the Second World War on the war in the Far East.