Glimpses
General
Sir Robert Lockhart,
KCB, CIE, MC
C-in-C, 15 Aug 1947 - 31 Dec 1947
Infantry, 51 Sikhs Frontier Force
Born on 23 June 1893, Sir Robert McGregor Macdonald Lockhart was commissioned in the British Indian Army and joined 51st Sikhs Frontier Force on 08 March 1914. He served as Military Attaché in Kabul, Afghanistan from March 1934 to December 1935. He was then appointed as the Deputy Director of Staff Duties, India in December 1939 and then took over as the Director of Staff Duties, India from 1940 and held that appointment till December 1941. He was subsequently selected to serve as the Secretary of Military Department, Indian Office and held that post from 1941 to 1943. In April 1945, he was posted to the Southern Army as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief and served in that capacity till June 1947. He was appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from 15 August 1947 and served till 31 December 1947.
After the Second World War, he served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organisition of the Scout movement from 1953 to 1959. He was awarded the Bronze Wolf Award, the only distinction of the World Organisition of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world scouting, in 1961. He passed away in 1981.