Peter was a Brigadier and the second son of the late General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien and Olive Crofton. He married Bridget Elvira Liddell, daughter of Sir Frederick Francis Liddell and Mabel Alice Magniac, on 24 April 1931. He and Bridget divorced in 1937. He married secondly,Cynthia, only daughter of Evelyn M Toulmin and William Leveson-Gower. At this time, June 3rd 1943 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel-the marriage took place in Alexandria. A daughter was born in Cairo on Jan 13th 1945 in Cairo, at which time he was a Brigadier.
He died,aged 39 at King David Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel; killed in a terrorist bomb explosion.Brigadier Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien was released from the Army in January 1946 and travelled to Palestine to take up the Colonial Office appointment of Commissioner of Commerce and Industry.
"India, Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947."
Name: Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 19 Oct 1907
Christening Place: Quetta, Bengal, India
Birth Date: 20 Sep 1907
Father's Name: Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
Mother's Name: Olive Crofton
1911 British Census:
Dwelling: Bleinheim Barracks, etc.
Census Place: Farnborough, Hampshire, England
SMITH DORRIEN Olive, wife, M, age 30, M8 C2 L2 D0, b. Kensington, London
SMITH DORRIEN Grenfell, son, -, age 7, b. Baluchistan, India
SMITH DORRIEN Peter, son, -, age 3, b. Baluchistan, India
He was awarded the OBE.
Supplement to The London Gazette 7th September 1939.
1/5th Bn Foresters [late cadet Corporal Harrow School Contingent Junior Division Officer Training Corps] to be made 2nd Lieutenant 1st August 1939.
His brother,Brigadier Grenfell Horace Gerald Smith-Dorrien was killed in action in Italy in 1944.
Amongst the other known casualties of this incident and interred nearby are:
Sergeant W N Jennings
Constable Ronald Arthur Woodward
One of the great dramas in British imperial history, the strife-torn three decades of British rule in Palestine, known as the Mandate (1917-1948),remains controversial even now. The British Mandate in Palestine, which was granted after World War 1, was due to expire in 1948. Peaceful progress towards self-government for the region was impossible and the British Army found itself in the middle of a power struggle between Arab and Jewish inhabitants and was being attacked by both sides.
On the morning of the 22nd of July 1946 a party of between 15 and 20 Jews, dressed as Arabs, pretending to be an Arab working party, entered the King David Hotel. The hotel housed the Secretariat of the Government of Palestine and Headquarters of the British Forces in Palestine and Transjordan. The terrorists, members of the Irgun (full title: Irgun Zevai Leumi), "The National Military Organization in the Land of Israel", a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandate Palestine, were able to enter the building without arousing too much attention because part of the building was still being used as a hotel and other people frequented it.Having unloaded from their lorry several milk churns filled with 225 kilograms of explosive, they placed them in the basement of the wing of the hotel occupied by the Secretariat.Specifically, the Irgun aimed at destroying the southern wing of the hotel, which housed the Mandate's intelligence records about Irgun, the Hagana, Lehi, and other Jewish paramilitary groups.
The Irgun committed the attack in response to Operation Agatha, known within Israel then and now as "Black Saturday".British troops had searched the Jewish Agency on June 29 and confiscated large quantities of documents about the group's operations and links with violent groups. The intelligence information was taken to the King David Hotel building in Jerusalem which contained the British military command and their Criminal Investigation Division, and it is said that the "Hotel housed the nerve centre of British rule in Palestine". From the wreckage and rubble the rescuers managed to extract six survivors. The last to be found was D. C. Thompson, 24 hours after the building had collapsed. He appeared to be more or less unhurt, but later died due to shock.
91 people were killed, most of them being staff of the hotel or Secretariat: 21 were first-rank government officials; 49 were second-rank clerks, typists and messengers, junior members of the Secretariat, employees of the hotel and canteen workers; 13 were soldiers; 3 policemen; and 5 were members of the public. By nationality, there were 41 Arabs, 28 British citizens, 17 Palestinian Jews, 2 Armenians, 1 Russian, 1 Greek and 1 Egyptian. 46 people were injured. Some of the deaths and injuries occurred in the road outside the hotel and in adjacent buildings. No identifiable traces were found of thirteen of those killed.
A British officer standing nearby, Captain Alexander David Mackintosh, became suspicious of this group of "Arabs" and began to ask questions, but was suddenly gunned down and subsequently died. A policeman stationed at the tradesman's entrance suffered a similar fate when he challenged the Jewish terrorists. Both victims were unarmed.
REASON FOR NON-COMMEMORATION AS CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
Our Ref: 68809
Dear Mr Gillon
Thank you for your email of 17th April 2012. Please accept my apologies for the delay in my reply.
The letter sent to you from the Army Personnel Centre only confirms that Brigadier Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien was not a service casualty of the Second World War as he was released from the Army in January 1946 and took up a Colonial Office appointment in Palestine.
The Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour records citizens of the Commonwealth and Empire who were killed by enemy action (or died as a result of enemy action) in the Second World War, in the United Kingdom and abroad. Although we were rarely informed of actual circumstances of death, as far as we can establish, civilians listed in the Roll of Honour who died after hostilities ended in 1945 are included as they died as a result of injuries sustained during the conflict or as a result of their interment in camps abroad etc.. not from post-war acts of terrorism.
Subsequent to Brigadier Smith-Dorrien's death, no authority informed us that he was to be recorded by the Commission as a civilian casualty of the Second World War.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Quinn (Mrs)
Enquiries Administrator
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 15:57
He died,aged 39 at King David Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel; killed in a terrorist bomb explosion.Brigadier Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien was released from the Army in January 1946 and travelled to Palestine to take up the Colonial Office appointment of Commissioner of Commerce and Industry.
"India, Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947."
Name: Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 19 Oct 1907
Christening Place: Quetta, Bengal, India
Birth Date: 20 Sep 1907
Father's Name: Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
Mother's Name: Olive Crofton
1911 British Census:
Dwelling: Bleinheim Barracks, etc.
Census Place: Farnborough, Hampshire, England
SMITH DORRIEN Olive, wife, M, age 30, M8 C2 L2 D0, b. Kensington, London
SMITH DORRIEN Grenfell, son, -, age 7, b. Baluchistan, India
SMITH DORRIEN Peter, son, -, age 3, b. Baluchistan, India
He was awarded the OBE.
Supplement to The London Gazette 7th September 1939.
1/5th Bn Foresters [late cadet Corporal Harrow School Contingent Junior Division Officer Training Corps] to be made 2nd Lieutenant 1st August 1939.
His brother,Brigadier Grenfell Horace Gerald Smith-Dorrien was killed in action in Italy in 1944.
Amongst the other known casualties of this incident and interred nearby are:
Sergeant W N Jennings
Constable Ronald Arthur Woodward
One of the great dramas in British imperial history, the strife-torn three decades of British rule in Palestine, known as the Mandate (1917-1948),remains controversial even now. The British Mandate in Palestine, which was granted after World War 1, was due to expire in 1948. Peaceful progress towards self-government for the region was impossible and the British Army found itself in the middle of a power struggle between Arab and Jewish inhabitants and was being attacked by both sides.
On the morning of the 22nd of July 1946 a party of between 15 and 20 Jews, dressed as Arabs, pretending to be an Arab working party, entered the King David Hotel. The hotel housed the Secretariat of the Government of Palestine and Headquarters of the British Forces in Palestine and Transjordan. The terrorists, members of the Irgun (full title: Irgun Zevai Leumi), "The National Military Organization in the Land of Israel", a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandate Palestine, were able to enter the building without arousing too much attention because part of the building was still being used as a hotel and other people frequented it.Having unloaded from their lorry several milk churns filled with 225 kilograms of explosive, they placed them in the basement of the wing of the hotel occupied by the Secretariat.Specifically, the Irgun aimed at destroying the southern wing of the hotel, which housed the Mandate's intelligence records about Irgun, the Hagana, Lehi, and other Jewish paramilitary groups.
The Irgun committed the attack in response to Operation Agatha, known within Israel then and now as "Black Saturday".British troops had searched the Jewish Agency on June 29 and confiscated large quantities of documents about the group's operations and links with violent groups. The intelligence information was taken to the King David Hotel building in Jerusalem which contained the British military command and their Criminal Investigation Division, and it is said that the "Hotel housed the nerve centre of British rule in Palestine". From the wreckage and rubble the rescuers managed to extract six survivors. The last to be found was D. C. Thompson, 24 hours after the building had collapsed. He appeared to be more or less unhurt, but later died due to shock.
91 people were killed, most of them being staff of the hotel or Secretariat: 21 were first-rank government officials; 49 were second-rank clerks, typists and messengers, junior members of the Secretariat, employees of the hotel and canteen workers; 13 were soldiers; 3 policemen; and 5 were members of the public. By nationality, there were 41 Arabs, 28 British citizens, 17 Palestinian Jews, 2 Armenians, 1 Russian, 1 Greek and 1 Egyptian. 46 people were injured. Some of the deaths and injuries occurred in the road outside the hotel and in adjacent buildings. No identifiable traces were found of thirteen of those killed.
A British officer standing nearby, Captain Alexander David Mackintosh, became suspicious of this group of "Arabs" and began to ask questions, but was suddenly gunned down and subsequently died. A policeman stationed at the tradesman's entrance suffered a similar fate when he challenged the Jewish terrorists. Both victims were unarmed.
REASON FOR NON-COMMEMORATION AS CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
Our Ref: 68809
Dear Mr Gillon
Thank you for your email of 17th April 2012. Please accept my apologies for the delay in my reply.
The letter sent to you from the Army Personnel Centre only confirms that Brigadier Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien was not a service casualty of the Second World War as he was released from the Army in January 1946 and took up a Colonial Office appointment in Palestine.
The Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour records citizens of the Commonwealth and Empire who were killed by enemy action (or died as a result of enemy action) in the Second World War, in the United Kingdom and abroad. Although we were rarely informed of actual circumstances of death, as far as we can establish, civilians listed in the Roll of Honour who died after hostilities ended in 1945 are included as they died as a result of injuries sustained during the conflict or as a result of their interment in camps abroad etc.. not from post-war acts of terrorism.
Subsequent to Brigadier Smith-Dorrien's death, no authority informed us that he was to be recorded by the Commission as a civilian casualty of the Second World War.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Quinn (Mrs)
Enquiries Administrator
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 15:57
Peter was a Brigadier and the second son of the late General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien and Olive Crofton. He married Bridget Elvira Liddell, daughter of Sir Frederick Francis Liddell and Mabel Alice Magniac, on 24 April 1931. He and Bridget divorced in 1937. He married secondly,Cynthia, only daughter of Evelyn M Toulmin and William Leveson-Gower. At this time, June 3rd 1943 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel-the marriage took place in Alexandria. A daughter was born in Cairo on Jan 13th 1945 in Cairo, at which time he was a Brigadier.
He died,aged 39 at King David Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel; killed in a terrorist bomb explosion.Brigadier Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien was released from the Army in January 1946 and travelled to Palestine to take up the Colonial Office appointment of Commissioner of Commerce and Industry.
"India, Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947."
Name: Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 19 Oct 1907
Christening Place: Quetta, Bengal, India
Birth Date: 20 Sep 1907
Father's Name: Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
Mother's Name: Olive Crofton
1911 British Census:
Dwelling: Bleinheim Barracks, etc.
Census Place: Farnborough, Hampshire, England
SMITH DORRIEN Olive, wife, M, age 30, M8 C2 L2 D0, b. Kensington, London
SMITH DORRIEN Grenfell, son, -, age 7, b. Baluchistan, India
SMITH DORRIEN Peter, son, -, age 3, b. Baluchistan, India
He was awarded the OBE.
Supplement to The London Gazette 7th September 1939.
1/5th Bn Foresters [late cadet Corporal Harrow School Contingent Junior Division Officer Training Corps] to be made 2nd Lieutenant 1st August 1939.
His brother,Brigadier Grenfell Horace Gerald Smith-Dorrien was killed in action in Italy in 1944.
Amongst the other known casualties of this incident and interred nearby are:
Sergeant W N Jennings
Constable Ronald Arthur Woodward
One of the great dramas in British imperial history, the strife-torn three decades of British rule in Palestine, known as the Mandate (1917-1948),remains controversial even now. The British Mandate in Palestine, which was granted after World War 1, was due to expire in 1948. Peaceful progress towards self-government for the region was impossible and the British Army found itself in the middle of a power struggle between Arab and Jewish inhabitants and was being attacked by both sides.
On the morning of the 22nd of July 1946 a party of between 15 and 20 Jews, dressed as Arabs, pretending to be an Arab working party, entered the King David Hotel. The hotel housed the Secretariat of the Government of Palestine and Headquarters of the British Forces in Palestine and Transjordan. The terrorists, members of the Irgun (full title: Irgun Zevai Leumi), "The National Military Organization in the Land of Israel", a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandate Palestine, were able to enter the building without arousing too much attention because part of the building was still being used as a hotel and other people frequented it.Having unloaded from their lorry several milk churns filled with 225 kilograms of explosive, they placed them in the basement of the wing of the hotel occupied by the Secretariat.Specifically, the Irgun aimed at destroying the southern wing of the hotel, which housed the Mandate's intelligence records about Irgun, the Hagana, Lehi, and other Jewish paramilitary groups.
The Irgun committed the attack in response to Operation Agatha, known within Israel then and now as "Black Saturday".British troops had searched the Jewish Agency on June 29 and confiscated large quantities of documents about the group's operations and links with violent groups. The intelligence information was taken to the King David Hotel building in Jerusalem which contained the British military command and their Criminal Investigation Division, and it is said that the "Hotel housed the nerve centre of British rule in Palestine". From the wreckage and rubble the rescuers managed to extract six survivors. The last to be found was D. C. Thompson, 24 hours after the building had collapsed. He appeared to be more or less unhurt, but later died due to shock.
91 people were killed, most of them being staff of the hotel or Secretariat: 21 were first-rank government officials; 49 were second-rank clerks, typists and messengers, junior members of the Secretariat, employees of the hotel and canteen workers; 13 were soldiers; 3 policemen; and 5 were members of the public. By nationality, there were 41 Arabs, 28 British citizens, 17 Palestinian Jews, 2 Armenians, 1 Russian, 1 Greek and 1 Egyptian. 46 people were injured. Some of the deaths and injuries occurred in the road outside the hotel and in adjacent buildings. No identifiable traces were found of thirteen of those killed.
A British officer standing nearby, Captain Alexander David Mackintosh, became suspicious of this group of "Arabs" and began to ask questions, but was suddenly gunned down and subsequently died. A policeman stationed at the tradesman's entrance suffered a similar fate when he challenged the Jewish terrorists. Both victims were unarmed.
REASON FOR NON-COMMEMORATION AS CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
Our Ref: 68809
Dear Mr Gillon
Thank you for your email of 17th April 2012. Please accept my apologies for the delay in my reply.
The letter sent to you from the Army Personnel Centre only confirms that Brigadier Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien was not a service casualty of the Second World War as he was released from the Army in January 1946 and took up a Colonial Office appointment in Palestine.
The Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour records citizens of the Commonwealth and Empire who were killed by enemy action (or died as a result of enemy action) in the Second World War, in the United Kingdom and abroad. Although we were rarely informed of actual circumstances of death, as far as we can establish, civilians listed in the Roll of Honour who died after hostilities ended in 1945 are included as they died as a result of injuries sustained during the conflict or as a result of their interment in camps abroad etc.. not from post-war acts of terrorism.
Subsequent to Brigadier Smith-Dorrien's death, no authority informed us that he was to be recorded by the Commission as a civilian casualty of the Second World War.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Quinn (Mrs)
Enquiries Administrator
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 15:57
He died,aged 39 at King David Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel; killed in a terrorist bomb explosion.Brigadier Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien was released from the Army in January 1946 and travelled to Palestine to take up the Colonial Office appointment of Commissioner of Commerce and Industry.
"India, Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947."
Name: Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 19 Oct 1907
Christening Place: Quetta, Bengal, India
Birth Date: 20 Sep 1907
Father's Name: Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
Mother's Name: Olive Crofton
1911 British Census:
Dwelling: Bleinheim Barracks, etc.
Census Place: Farnborough, Hampshire, England
SMITH DORRIEN Olive, wife, M, age 30, M8 C2 L2 D0, b. Kensington, London
SMITH DORRIEN Grenfell, son, -, age 7, b. Baluchistan, India
SMITH DORRIEN Peter, son, -, age 3, b. Baluchistan, India
He was awarded the OBE.
Supplement to The London Gazette 7th September 1939.
1/5th Bn Foresters [late cadet Corporal Harrow School Contingent Junior Division Officer Training Corps] to be made 2nd Lieutenant 1st August 1939.
His brother,Brigadier Grenfell Horace Gerald Smith-Dorrien was killed in action in Italy in 1944.
Amongst the other known casualties of this incident and interred nearby are:
Sergeant W N Jennings
Constable Ronald Arthur Woodward
One of the great dramas in British imperial history, the strife-torn three decades of British rule in Palestine, known as the Mandate (1917-1948),remains controversial even now. The British Mandate in Palestine, which was granted after World War 1, was due to expire in 1948. Peaceful progress towards self-government for the region was impossible and the British Army found itself in the middle of a power struggle between Arab and Jewish inhabitants and was being attacked by both sides.
On the morning of the 22nd of July 1946 a party of between 15 and 20 Jews, dressed as Arabs, pretending to be an Arab working party, entered the King David Hotel. The hotel housed the Secretariat of the Government of Palestine and Headquarters of the British Forces in Palestine and Transjordan. The terrorists, members of the Irgun (full title: Irgun Zevai Leumi), "The National Military Organization in the Land of Israel", a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandate Palestine, were able to enter the building without arousing too much attention because part of the building was still being used as a hotel and other people frequented it.Having unloaded from their lorry several milk churns filled with 225 kilograms of explosive, they placed them in the basement of the wing of the hotel occupied by the Secretariat.Specifically, the Irgun aimed at destroying the southern wing of the hotel, which housed the Mandate's intelligence records about Irgun, the Hagana, Lehi, and other Jewish paramilitary groups.
The Irgun committed the attack in response to Operation Agatha, known within Israel then and now as "Black Saturday".British troops had searched the Jewish Agency on June 29 and confiscated large quantities of documents about the group's operations and links with violent groups. The intelligence information was taken to the King David Hotel building in Jerusalem which contained the British military command and their Criminal Investigation Division, and it is said that the "Hotel housed the nerve centre of British rule in Palestine". From the wreckage and rubble the rescuers managed to extract six survivors. The last to be found was D. C. Thompson, 24 hours after the building had collapsed. He appeared to be more or less unhurt, but later died due to shock.
91 people were killed, most of them being staff of the hotel or Secretariat: 21 were first-rank government officials; 49 were second-rank clerks, typists and messengers, junior members of the Secretariat, employees of the hotel and canteen workers; 13 were soldiers; 3 policemen; and 5 were members of the public. By nationality, there were 41 Arabs, 28 British citizens, 17 Palestinian Jews, 2 Armenians, 1 Russian, 1 Greek and 1 Egyptian. 46 people were injured. Some of the deaths and injuries occurred in the road outside the hotel and in adjacent buildings. No identifiable traces were found of thirteen of those killed.
A British officer standing nearby, Captain Alexander David Mackintosh, became suspicious of this group of "Arabs" and began to ask questions, but was suddenly gunned down and subsequently died. A policeman stationed at the tradesman's entrance suffered a similar fate when he challenged the Jewish terrorists. Both victims were unarmed.
REASON FOR NON-COMMEMORATION AS CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
Our Ref: 68809
Dear Mr Gillon
Thank you for your email of 17th April 2012. Please accept my apologies for the delay in my reply.
The letter sent to you from the Army Personnel Centre only confirms that Brigadier Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien was not a service casualty of the Second World War as he was released from the Army in January 1946 and took up a Colonial Office appointment in Palestine.
The Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour records citizens of the Commonwealth and Empire who were killed by enemy action (or died as a result of enemy action) in the Second World War, in the United Kingdom and abroad. Although we were rarely informed of actual circumstances of death, as far as we can establish, civilians listed in the Roll of Honour who died after hostilities ended in 1945 are included as they died as a result of injuries sustained during the conflict or as a result of their interment in camps abroad etc.. not from post-war acts of terrorism.
Subsequent to Brigadier Smith-Dorrien's death, no authority informed us that he was to be recorded by the Commission as a civilian casualty of the Second World War.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Quinn (Mrs)
Enquiries Administrator
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 15:57
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