10 Facts About Rob Lockhart

Rob Lockhart's mother was Florence Stuart Macgregor, while other ancestors included Bruces, Hamiltons, Cummings, Wallaces and Douglases.

Rob Lockhart joined the 51st Sikhs on 8 March 1914 and in the First World War served in Egypt, Aden, and Mesopotamia.

Rob Lockhart was promoted to lieutenant on 22 April 1915, to acting captain on 13 April 1916, again on 7 October 1916, and to captain on 22 January 1917.

Rob Lockhart was Promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 8 November 1936, and was given command of the 1st battalion, the 12th Frontier Force Regiment.

Rob Lockhart was promoted to colonel on 1 February 1939, and appointed Deputy Director of Staff Duties in the India Office.

Rob Lockhart was promoted to acting major-general on 28 April 1941, to temporary major-general on 28 April 1942, and to the permanent rank of major-general on 24 October 1942.

On 15 August 1947, the day British India was partitioned into two independent Dominions, Rob Lockhart was appointed as Commander-in-Chief, Indian Army, with the acting rank of general.

Rob Lockhart retired on 1 October 1948, but was recalled to the British forces as Director of Operations during the Malaya Emergency between 1951 and 1952.

Rob Lockhart served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1953 to 1959, and in 1961 was awarded the Bronze Wolf Award, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.

On 2 September 1918, in Mussoorie, a hill station in India, Lockhart married Margaret Amy Campbell, a daughter of Sir Robert Neil Campbell, commander of the Bengal Medical Service.