Laurence Carr
Lieutenant-General Laurence Carr, was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War.
Military career
Laurence Carr was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in 1904. He served in the First World War in France and Belgium. After the war he attended the Staff College, Camberley, and was deployed to India in 1920. He then held an appointment as GSO2 with Eastern Command, India, which he relinquished in January 1923 in order to take up a new position as an instructor, graded as a GSO2, at the Staff College, Quetta, the following month.From 1931 Carr was a General [Staff Officer] at the War Office. He moved on to join the staff at the Imperial Defence College in 1934. He was appointed commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade in 1936 and deployed to Palestine and then became Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1938.
Carr also served in the Second World War, initially as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff and then as General Officer Commanding I Corps, which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force, deployed to France and Belgium in 1940. He became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Command in 1941. His last appointment was as Senior Military Assistant to the Ministry of Supply in 1942; he retired in 1944.