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Major General Lock and Mrs. Lock watching Mrs. Kay Thompson operate a clicking machine at the General Engineering Company (Canada) munitions plant, May 1943.

Sir Robert Ferguson Lock KBE CB (13 December 1879 – 25 July 1957) was a British major general in the Royal Artillery who served during the First World War. He was awarded the CB in 1937 and KBE in 1944.

In 1910 he married Kathleen Beryl Penton, daughter of Arthur Pole Penton CB, CMG, CVO in 1910. They had a daughter Ursula whose second husband was the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, another daughter, and a son Robert John Penton Lock who also served as an artilleryman in the Second World War, dying in 1944.

References

  1. The Times, Saturday, Jul 27, 1957; pg. 8; Issue 53904; col F Maj.-Gen. Sir Robert Lock
  2. ‘PENTON, Maj.-Gen. Arthur Pole’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 6 June 2013
  3. "Casualty Details | CWGC".

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