Kenneth Wigram

General Sir Kenneth Wigram, GCB, CSI, CBE, DSO (5 December 1875 – 11 July 1949) was a British Indian Army officer.

He was educated at Winchester College and was commissioned from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst as a Second Lieutenant, with a view to his appointment to the Indian Staff Corps on 22 January 1896, and was eventually posted to the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles).

[2] At the outbreak of the First World War, Wigram was a major serving as a staff officer at the Indian Army headquarters.

He remained in staff posts during the war, including in June 1915 when he was made a GSO2,[3] until February 1917 when he was promoted to temporary brigadier general[4] and appointed Head of Operations (B) Section at the General Headquarters of the British Army in France.

[5] Later that year, at the start of October, he was granted an RAF commission as a temporary brigadier general and he served on the Air Staff until April 1919 when he returned to the Army.