Major General Sir William Louis Oberkirch Twiss, KCIE, CB, CBE, MC, FRGS (18 January 1879 – 13 October 1962) was a senior British Indian Army officer.
Born on 18 January 1879, William Twiss was educated at Bedford School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
[1] He served in China during the Boxer Rebellion between 1900 and 1901 as a Transport Officer and was mentioned in despatches and during the British expedition to Tibet, between 1903 and 1904.
[2] He commanded the 2/9th Gurkha Rifles, between 1921 and 1923, was Director of Military Intelligence, Army Headquarters, India, between 1923 and 1924, and Director of Military Operations, Army Headquarters, India, between 1924 and 1927.
[6] He retired from the British Indian Army in January 1939 and died on 13 October 1962.