# Harold Kingsley
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[Brigadier](/source/Brigadier_(United_Kingdom)) '''Harold Kingsley''' [CIE](/source/Order_of_the_Indian_Empire) [DSO](/source/Distinguished_Service_Order) (23 December 1885 – 15 April 1970) was Commandant of the [Indian Military Academy](/source/Indian_Military_Academy) (1936–1939) and [Aide-de-camp](/source/Aide-de-camp) to King [George VI](/source/George_VI).[{{Cite web|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-55519|title=Kingsley, Brigadier Harold (Evelyn William Bell), (1885–15 April 1970), late 4th The Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U55519|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}][{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R44XAQAAMAAJ&q=Harold+Evelyn+William+Bell+Kingsley|title=Great Britain and the East|work=google.co.uk|year=1939|access-date=3 July 2015}}][[The Times](/source/The_Times), 14 January 1939][''Kelly’s Handbook To The Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1962'', Published by Kelly’s Directories Limited 1962]
==Early life==
Harold Evelyn William Bell Kingsley was born 23 December 1885 in [Nenagh](/source/Nenagh), [Ireland](/source/Ireland).[{{cite web|url=http://www.ancestry.co.uk|title=Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk|work=ancestry.co.uk|access-date=3 July 2015}}] He was the son of Col. William Henry Bell Kingsley [CB](/source/Order_of_the_Bath)[{{cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U187844|title=KINGSLEY, William Henry Bell (1835 - 1901), JP for County Tipperary|work=oup.com|date=December 2007|access-date=3 July 2015}}] and his wife, Mrs Kingsley, of River View, [Nenagh](/source/Nenagh), Co. Tipperary.[{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/The-Half-Yearly-Army-List-for-the-Period-Ending-31st-December-1938-Volume-July-December-1938/665994/55|title=The Half-Yearly Army List for the Period Ending 31st December 1938|work=Mocavo|access-date=3 July 2015}}] He was appointed Captain on 18 January 1914 and Major on 18 January 1920.[[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34014/page/318/data.pdf ''The London Gazette'' 12 January 1934, Issue 34014, p. 318]] He was Commandant of the [Indian Military Academy](/source/Indian_Military_Academy) between 1936 and 1939 and [ADC](/source/Aide-de-camp) to the King (1938–39).[[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34755/supplement/8389/data.pdf ''Supplement to The London Gazette'', 15 December 1939, Issue 34755, p. 8389]]
==Awards and honours==
Kingsley was [mentioned in despatches](/source/Mentioned_in_dispatches) during [World War I](/source/World_War_I) and on service in Waziristan (1921–24).[Obituary of Hon. Mrs Harold Kingsley, [The Times](/source/The_Times), 17 June 1964] There were no children from the marriage and Kingsley died in [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire) on 15 April 1970.