Robert Lock (British Army officer)
Major General Sir Robert Ferguson Lock KBE CB (13 December 1879 – 25 July 1957) was a British Army officer in the Royal Artillery who served during the First World War.[1]
Career
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Lock was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 23 June 1898, and promoted to lieutenant on 16 February 1901.[2] He was seconded to take a course of instruction at the School of Gunnery in 1903.[3]
He was awarded the CB in 1937 and KBE in 1944.[4]
Family
[edit]In 1910 he married Kathleen Beryl Penton, daughter of Arthur Pole Penton CB, CMG, CVO in 1910. They had a daughter Ursula whose second husband was the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, another daughter, and a son Robert John Penton Lock who also served as an artilleryman in the Second World War, dying on 26 March 1944.[5] The inscription chosen for the gravestone for their son Robert was: "AS GOLD IN THE FURNACE HATH HE TRIED THEM, AND RECEIVED THEM".[5]
References
[edit]- ^ The Times, Saturday, Jul 27, 1957; pg. 8; Issue 53904; col F Maj.-Gen. Sir Robert Lock
- ^ Hart′s Army list, 1904
- ^ "No. 27513". The London Gazette. 6 January 1903. p. 108.
- ^ ‘PENTON, Maj.-Gen. Arthur Pole’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 6 June 2013
- ^ a b "Casualty Details: Lock, Robert John Penton". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
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