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Laurence Carr CB DSO OBE (14 April 188615 April 1954) was a

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general during

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Military career

Laurence Carr was commissioned into the

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in 1904.Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
/ref> He served in

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and

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. After the War he attended the Staff College, Camberley and was deployed to

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in 1920. From 1931 he was a General Staff Officer at the

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moving on to join the staff at the

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in 1934. He was appointed Commander 2nd Infantry Brigade in 1936 and deployed to Palestine and then became Director of Staff Duties at the

in 1938. He also served in

initially as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff and then as General Officer Commanding

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, which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force, deployed to

and

in 1940. He became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Command in 1941. His last appointment was as Senior Military Assistant to the Ministry of Supply in 1942; he retired in 1944.

Family

He was married to Elizabeth Montgomery Carr.Letters to his wife
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