Kenneth Strong
British Army general
Born on: September 9, 1900Died on: January 11, 1982
Aged: 81 years 124 days (976 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: United kingdom
Birth Sign: Virgo
Major-General Sir Kenneth William Dobson Strong, was a senior officer of the British Army who served in the Second World War, rising to become Director General of Intelligence.
A graduate of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Strong was commissioned into the 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1920. After service as an Intelligence Officer with his battalion in Ireland from 1920 to 1922 during the Irish War of Independence, he volunteered for service as an interpreter and was posted to Germany with the British Army of the Rhine.
In 1935 he returned to Germany as a member of the International Force supervising the Saarland plebiscite. Afterwards, he joined the German Intelligence Section at the War Office.
In 1937 he became Assistant Military attaché in Berlin.
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