Arthur Parsons

Who was Arthur Parsons?

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons, KCIE, CBE, DSO was a British Indian Army officer and administrator in British India. He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire Volunteer Light Infantry as an acting Second Lieutenant in 1904, and was given a full second lieutenancy in 1906. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1909 and to Captain in 1915. He was a Major by 1923, in which year he was awarded the DSO to add to his OBE. He was appointed a CBE in 1927 and was knighted with the KCIE in 1938, by which time he was a Lieutenant-Colonel. He served as governor of the North-West Frontier Province in 1939.