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[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir John Francis Stanhope Duke Coleridge''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCB|CMG|DSO}} (25 April 1878 – 3 November 1951) was a senior [[British Indian Army]] officer who went on to be [[Military Secretary to the India Office]].

==Military career==
Coleridge was educated at [[Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington College]]<ref name=well>Wellington College Register 1859-1933, p. 163</ref> and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].<ref name=well/> He was [[Commissioned officer|commissioned]] into the [[Indian Staff Corps]] in 1898,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26988|page=4355|date=19 July 1898}}</ref> transferred to the [[8 Gorkha Rifles|8th Gurkhas]] in July 1900<ref>January 1908 Indian Army List</ref> and was sent on a mission to [[Tibet]] in 1903.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/openingoftibetac00landrich/openingoftibetac00landrich_djvu.txt The Opening of Tibet: An account of Lhasa and the Country and the People of Central Tibet and the progress of the mission sent there by the English Government in the year 1903 to 1904]</ref>

Coleridge served on the [[Abor Hills|Abor]] expedition on the north east frontier of India in 1911-12 and was [[mentioned in despatches]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28627|page=5177|date=16 July 1912}}</ref> He served in [[World War I]] and in 1916 was on the [[General Staff]] of the [[Egyptian Expeditionary Force]].<ref>[http://alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/index.blog?start=1244898059 MacMunn, G. & Falls, C., Military operations: Egypt and Palestine, (London 1930), p. 387]</ref> He served as [[Commander]] of 189th Brigade from October 1917 and then 188th Brigade from December 1917.<ref>[http://www.royalnavaldivision.co.uk/rnd7.htm Royal Naval Division] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306113749/http://www.royalnavaldivision.co.uk/rnd7.htm |date= 6 March 2012 }}</ref>
He was appointed a [[Companion of the Distinguished Service Order]] on 3 June 1916,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29608|page=5567|date=3 June 1966|supp=y}}</ref> appointed a [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]] on 3 June 1918<ref>London Gazette 3 June 1918</ref> and awarded a bar to his [[Distinguished Service Order]] on 3 December 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette|city=e|issue=13362|page=4381|date=2 December 1918}}</ref>

After the War he returned to [[India]] as a [[General Staff Officer]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32346|supp=y|page=4532|date=4 June 1921}}</ref> and carried out a review the new [[Indian Defence Force]] and the internal security measures there.<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_3-1&cid=1-1-1-286-149#1-1-1-286-149 National Archives]</ref> He was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] in the [[1921 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32346|page=4532|date=4 June 1921}}</ref> He served as Assistant Commandant at the Quetta Staff College from 1923 to 1925, Military Secretary Army Headquarters, India from 1926 to 1930 and became commander of the Kohat District in 1930.<ref name="ReferenceA">p463, Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1944</ref>

During the North West Frontier operations of 1930-31 he commanded, as a Major-General, the [[Peshawar District]].<ref>[http://www.ordersofbattle.com/Persons/PersonAppointments?PerX=520757 Orders of Battle]</ref> He was advanced to [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] in the [[1933 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33946|page=3801|date=2 June 1933|supp=y}}</ref> He was [[Military Secretary to the India Office]] from 1933 to 1936<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34289|page=3448|date=29 May 1936}}</ref> and [[General Officer Commanding]] [[Northern Command (India)|Northern Command, India]] from 1936 to 1940 for which he was mentioned in despatches twice,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34449|supp=y|page=6815|date=2 November 1937}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34520|supp=y|page=3822|date=14 June 1938}}</ref> retiring shortly afterwards.<ref>[http://www.reubique.com/Delme-R.htm Major Michael Delme-Radcliffe, Royal Engineers]</ref> He was advanced to [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] on 11 July 1940.<ref>{{London Gazette|city=e|issue=15725|page=430|date=16 July 1940}}</ref> He was also Aide de Camp General to the King from 1936 to 1940.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

He was appointed Colonel of the [[8th Gurkha Rifles]] from January 1926,<ref>January 1931 Indian Army List</ref> Colonel of the 2nd battalion 1st Punjab Regiment from November 1932<ref>October 1939 Indian Army List</ref> and [[Colonel_(United_Kingdom)#Honorary_Colonel|Honorary Colonel]] of the [[7th (Hay Tor) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment]] (later 87th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devons)) from 1941.<ref>Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1944, p. 463</ref>

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