Ronald Okeden Alexander

Major-General Ronald Okeden Alexander CB DSO (7 August 1888 – 28 July 1949) was a military officer in the Canadian army, a District Officer, Commanding District No.4, Montreal (1936–38), Number 2 Toronto (1938–40) and Inspector General for Central Canada (1942–46).[1][2][3] He commanded the Western coast defences of Canada during World War II.[4]

Ronald Okeden Alexander

Life

Alexander was the son of J.A. Alexander, Indian Civil Service, and was born in Kandy, Ceylon on 7 August 1888. He was educated at Bedford Modern School,[5][6] and the Staff College, Camberley.[7] During World War I he was mentioned in despatches three times and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1917. During World War II he was Inspector General of the armed forces in Central Canada and was a made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1944.[8] He died at Saanich, British Columbia on 27 July 1949.

References
  1. Obituary in The Times, Major-General R.O. Alexander, 29 July 1949, p.9
  2. Imperial Vancouver Island:Who Was Who 1850-1950, by JF Bosher, 2010
  3. Who Was Who, Published by A&C Black Limited, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920-2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014
  4. Obituary in The Times, Major-General R.O. Alexander, 29 July 1949, p.9
  5. Bedford Modern School of the Black and Red by Andrew Underwood (1981)
  6. The Eagle, Vol. XXVIII, no. 1 (Christmas, 1950), p. 89
  7. The Canadian Who’s Who, Vol. IV, 1948
  8. The Canadian Who’s Who, Vol. IV, 1948
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