Louis Bols

Lieutenant General Sir Louis Jean Bols, KCB, KCMG, DSO (23 November 1867 – 13 September 1930) was a British Army general, who served as chief of staff of Edmund Allenby's Third Army on the Western Front and in the Sinai and Palestine campaign during the First World War.

In 1895 he served with the Chitral Relief Force under Sir Robert Low as adjutant and quartermaster at the British Military Depot.

After peace was declared in May 1902, Bols left South Africa on board the SS Bavarian and arrived in the United Kingdom the following month.

[13] At the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 Bols, having been promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general in February,[14] held the command of the 84th Infantry Brigade, part of the 28th Division.

[19] From 1927 to his death he was Governor and General Officer Commanding of the army garrison of the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda.

Group photo of the 1st Battalion, Dorset Regiment Football XI, with several officers. Belfast 1913/14. Middle row, third from left is Lieutenant Colonel L. J. Bols; third from right, middle row is Captain Algernon Ransome , the battalion's adjutant.
The investiture by H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, February 1918. Decorated Generals Allenby, in conversation with Lieutenant General Chetwode, in foreground. Stood nearby is Allenby's MGGS, Major General Bols.
Governor and GOC of Bermuda Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Bols takes salute at Prospect Camp in 1930