   lieutenant general sir thomas jacomb hutton kcb, kcie, mc & bar (1890â1981) was an officer in the british army, who held a variety of vital staff appointments between world war i and world war ii, ultimately commanding burma army during the early stages of the japanese conquest of burma. ==early career, and world war i== he was educated at rossall school and royal military academy, woolwich. in 1909, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the royal artillery.liddell hart centre for military archives he served on the western front throughout world war i, being promoted to captain in 1915 and brevet major in 1918. he became staff qualified, and served in 1918 as a general staff officer, grade 3 (gso3) and as a brigade major from 1918 to 1919. ==inter-war years== from 1919 to 1920 he served in the war office as the assistant military secretary and from 1923 to 1924 as the deputy assistant adjutant general. from 1924 to 1926, he was general staff officer, grade 2 (gso2) on the staff of eastern command, in the eastern counties of britain. he was officially promoted to the full rank of major in 1927, and from 1927 to 1930 he was the military assistant to chief of the imperial general staff. he was "double jumped" to the rank of full colonel in 1930 and served from 1933 to 1936 as general staff officer grade 1 (gso1) in the directorate of military operations in the war office. in 1936 he served in the british forces in the british mandate of palestine. from 1936 to 1938 he was the gso1 (i.e. chief of staff) in the 1st infantry division (united kingdom). he was promoted to major general and appointed general officer commanding western independent district, in india. ==world war ii== in 1940, after the outbreak of the second world war, he was appointed deputy chief of the general staff, [[india
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