Henry Mortimer Poulton
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Henry Mortimer Poulton | |
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Born | 23 April 1898 |
Died | 1 September 1973 |
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Mortimer Poulton CIE (23 April 1898 – 1 September 1973) was a British Indian Army and Indian Political Service officer.
Commissioned into the Indian Army in 1917, he joined the Indian Political Department in 1922. He was created a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1942 New Year Honours[1] and was Chief Commissioner of Balochistan in 1946, shortly before Indian independence.[2] He retired in 1947.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Poulton, Lt-Col Henry Mortimer, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
- ^ Provinces of British India