Walter Venning

General Sir Walter King Venning, GCB, CMG, CBE, MC (17 January 1882 – 19 June 1964) was a British Army officer and administrator who served in both World Wars.

Known for his competency as an administrator, he served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1939 to 1942 and Director General of the British Supply Mission in Washington, D.C. from 1942 to 1945.

[2] Venning saw active service in the First World War, earning the Military Cross in the King's 1915 Birthday Honours.

[2] In the Second World War, Venning served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 2 February 1939[3] to 1942; in this capacity he had responsibility for the War Office Fleet, which he despatched to Dunkirk in 1940 to evacuate Allied forces.

[4] According to The Times, "It was due to the superb organization which [Venning] created and directed that the mobilization of the Regular Army in 1939, the embodiment of the Territorial Army and the embarkation of the expeditionary force were carried out with such astonishing smoothness.