Lady Weeks, wife of Lieutenant General Sir Ronald Weeks, Deputy Chief of Imperial Staff, walking with Commander E R Micklem, CBE, Managing Director of Vickers Armstrong, at the Vickers Armstrong Yard in Barrow-in-Furness.
He was re-employed during the Second World War, initially as Chief of Staff for the Territorial Division and then as a brigadier on the General Staff of Home Forces in 1940.[2] He was promoted to acting major-general on 17 March 1941[3] and was appointed Director General of Army Equipment in 1941 and Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1942.[2] He then became Deputy Military Governor and Chief of Staff of the British Zone for the Allied Control Council in Germany in 1945; in that capacity he was involved in negotiations to avoid the Berlin Blockade.[4] He retired from the British Army later that year.[2]
He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in 1917,[5] and a Bar to the MC in 1918. The citation for his MC reads:[6]
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during lengthy operations. It was largely due to his courage and able leadership that the counter-attack of two battalions against a hostile position was successful. During a subsequent withdrawal he carried out some very valuable and gallant reconnaissance work.
After the war, Weeks became Chairman of Vickers.[10] In 1956 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Weeks, of Ryton in the County Palatine of Durham.[11]
Marriages and children
Weeks married Evelyn Elsie Haynes on 21 April 1922. They were divorced in 1930. On 3 February 1931, he married Cynthia Mary Irvine. With his second wife he had two daughters:[12]
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