Ernest Lewin

Major General Ernest Ord Lewin, CB, CMG, DSO (7 April 1879 – 10 May 1950) was a senior British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding Malaya Command from 1934 to 1935.

[3] In his early career, he served as a Staff Officer in India and in the United Kingdom, before become an adjutant in 1914.

[4] Lewin served in the First World War as a General Staff Officer in France.

[4] He was made commander of the 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division in 1935 and retired in 1938.

[4] He was re-employed during the Second World War as General Officer Commanding Portsmouth Area in 1939 and then as Major-General in Charge of Administration for Southern Command in 1940; he retired again in 1941.