Leslie Hollis

General Sir Leslie Chasemore Hollis, KCB, KBE (9 February 1897 – 9 August 1963) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1949 to 1952.

For the Australian politician, see Leslie Hollis (politician).

Sir Leslie Hollis
General Sir Leslie Hollis
Born(1897-02-09)9 February 1897
Bath, Somerset
Died9 August 1963(1963-08-09) (aged 66)
Cuckfield, Sussex
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchRoyal Marines
Years of service1914–1952
RankGeneral
Commands heldCommandant General Royal Marines
Battles/warsFirst World War
Second World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Legion of Merit (United States)

Military career

Hollis was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1914 and served in the First World War in the Grand Fleet and the Harwich Force.[1] Between the wars he served on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief Africa Station and of the Plans Division at the Admiralty before being appointed Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1936.[1] He served in the Second World War as Senior Assistant Secretary in the War Cabinet Office.[1] He was present at virtually every major decision during that period, attending all the major conferences—Washington, Cairo, Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam—and was instrumental in establishing what became known as the Cabinet War Rooms (now known the Churchill War Rooms).[2]

After the war Hollis became Deputy Secretary (Military) to the Cabinet in 1947 and Commandant General Royal Marines in 1949.[1] He was credited with saving the Royal Marines from being disbanded,[3] and retired in 1952.[1]

References
  1. Sir Leslie Chasemore Hollis Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  2. "War Cabinet Rooms". Readers Digest. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  3. The corps that cheated death Times Education Supplement, 31 August 2001

Further reading
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Dallas Brooks		 Commandant General Royal Marines
1949–1952		 Succeeded by
Sir John Westall
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