Canadian Army general
Major General Ronald Okeden Alexander, pictured here during World War II .
Major-General Ronald Okeden Alexander CB DSO (7 August 1888 – 28 July 1949) was a military officer in the Canadian Army , a District Officer, Commanding District No.4, Montreal (1936–38), Number 2 Toronto (1938–40) and Inspector General for Central Canada (1942–46).[1] [2] [3] He commanded the Western coast defences of Canada during World War II .[1]
Military career
Alexander was the son of J.A. Alexander, Indian Civil Service, and was born in Kandy , Ceylon on 7 August 1888. He was educated at Bedford Modern School ,[4] [5] [6] On 21 June 1910 he was commissioned as an officer into The Royal Canadian Regiment .[7]
During World War I he was mentioned in despatches three times throughout the conflict and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1917.[8]
Remaining in the army during the interwar period , where he attended the Staff College, Camberley and then served as Professor of Tactics at the Royal Military College of Canada from September 1924−December 1927, he also active during World War II he was Inspector General of the armed forces in Central Canada and was a made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1944.[6]
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He died at the age of sixty in Saanich, British Columbia on 27 July 1949.
References
^ a b Obituary in The Times , Major-General R.O. Alexander , 29 July 1949, p.9
^ [1] Imperial Vancouver Island:Who Was Who 1850-1950 , by JF Bosher, 2010
^ "Alexander, Maj.-Gen. Ronald Okeden, (7 Aug. 1888–28 July 1949)" . WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO . 2007. doi :10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U221814 . ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1 .
^ Bedford Modern School of the Black and Red by Andrew Underwood (1981)
^ The Eagle, Vol. XXVIII, no. 1 (Christmas, 1950), p. 89
^ a b The Canadian Who’s Who, Vol. IV, 1948
^ "Canadian Army officer histories" . Unit Histories. Retrieved 2022-01-04 .
^ "No. 13033" . The Edinburgh Gazette . 1 January 1917. p. 29.
^ "No. 36545" . The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1944. p. 2653.
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