Brigadier-General Sir Wyndham Henry Deedes, CMG, DSO was a British Army officer and civil administrator.
17 Facts About Wyndham Deedes
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Wyndham Deedes was the Chief Secretary to the British High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Wyndham Deedes was the youngest son of East Kent gentry, Colonel Herbert George Deedes and Rose Elinor Barrow, whose family had owned the land between Hythe and Ashford for four centuries.
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Wyndham Deedes was educated at Eton College, an all-boys public boarding school in Eton, Berkshire.
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On 4 February 1901, Deedes was commissioned into the 9th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps as a second lieutenant.
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Wyndham Deedes was posted to South Africa where he fought in the Second Boer War.
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On 22 January 1906, Wyndham Deedes was promoted to lieutenant and seconded to the Colonial Office.
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On 8 May 1910, Wyndham Deedes was seconded for service under the Foreign Office.
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On 27 April 1915, the then Captain Wyndham Deedes was appointed as a General Staff Officer.
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On 21 March 1917, Wyndham Deedes was promoted to temporary Lieutenant Colonel upon appointment as a General Staff Officer in the General Staff.
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On 3 June 1917, Wyndham Deedes was awarded the rank of Brevet Colonel "for distinguished service in the field".
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Wyndham Deedes was posted to Cairo, Egypt, which was at that time a British protectorate, as public security director.
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From 1920 to 1922, Wyndham Deedes served as Chief Secretary to the then British High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel in Palestine.
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Wyndham Deedes retired from the British Army on 27 June 1923, with the honorary rank of Brigadier General.
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Wyndham Deedes was vice chairman of the National Council of Social Services.
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Wyndham Deedes returned to Hythe to live his years in a single room.
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Wyndham Deedes translated three major Turkish literary works into English: two novels by Resat Nuri Guntekin and a memoir by Mahmut Makal:.