Colonel Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, GBE was an Anglo-Irish diplomat, soldier and politician in the British Empire.
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15 Facts About Reginald Dorman-Smith
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Reginald Dorman-Smith was first elected as a Member of Parliament for Petersfield in the 1935 general election as one of a handful of MPs sponsored by the NFU and served as the Union's president for the following few years.
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In October 1940, Reginald Dorman-Smith instigated the Government's Dig for Victory campaign, aimed at increasing food production from allotments.
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However, when Chamberlain fell, Reginald Dorman-Smith was not included in the government of his successor, Winston Churchill.
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Reginald Dorman-Smith was referred to in the book "Guilty Men" by Michael Foot, Frank Owen and Peter Howard, published in 1940 as an attack on public figures for their failure to re-arm and their appeasement of Nazi Germany.
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Reginald Dorman-Smith was appointed Governor of Burma from 6 May 1941 to 31 August 1946, and was therefore in office at the time of the Japanese invasion - and was expelled from the country by the Japanese.
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In October 1943, Reginald Dorman-Smith made a speech in London before the East Indian Association.
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Reginald Dorman-Smith's speech lamented the fact that while the British had talked for years about self-government and reform in Asia, they had delivered very little of it which had damaged their credibility.
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Reginald Dorman-Smith considered arresting Aung San for a murder he committed in 1942.
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Reginald Dorman-Smith was convinced by his superiors not to carry out the arrest.
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Reginald Dorman-Smith believed that if London had not intervened, he could have influenced the course of events in Burma so as to prevent the country from leaving the British Commonwealth.
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Reginald Dorman-Smith was born into an Anglo-Irish gentry family at Bellamont House, Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland, and was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst.
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Reginald Dorman-Smith served briefly in the British Indian Army before being invalided out, then joined a volunteer battalion of the Queen's Royal Regiment.
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One of Reginald Dorman-Smith's two brothers, Eric Reginald Dorman-Smith, was a major-general in the British Army in the Second World War.
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Reginald Dorman-Smith's other brother, Victor, was a Royal Navy captain who served as a member of Combined Operations HQ during World War One.
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