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Eric Bols
Major General Eric Louis Bols & Bar (8 June 1904 – 14 June 1985) was an officer in the British Army, who was most notable for serving as the commanding officer of the 6th Airborne Division during Operation Varsity in 1945. Born in Surrey in 1904, Bols joined the Army in 1924 and saw service in a number of areas of the British Empire during the inter-war period, including Hong Kong and Shanghai, as well as Malta. He served as a Cadet Instructor at Sandhurst and attended courses at the British Army Staff College on promotion to captain.
When the Second World War began, Bols moved through several staff officer positions, serving in several institutions and Army formations before being promoted to colonel and taking charge of all training for the troops under the command of 21st Army Group and helping to plan Operation Overlord. Bols was then promoted again and commanded a brigade during the Allied advance through Western Europe, before taking command of the 6th Airborne Division in late 1944. He led the division in the Battle of the Bulge, as well as Operation Varsity, the airborne operation to cross the River Rhine, then led the division into northern Germany until the end of the conflict. After the end of the war Bols remained in command of the division in peace-keeping duties in the Middle East, and then retired in 1948 as a major general.
==Early life and career==
Bols was born in Camberley in Surrey in June 1904. His father, Louis Bols, was born in Quebec, and was the son of the Belgian Consul stationed in Quebec and later London.〔Dover, p. 156〕 Louis Bols, who was a dual British and Belgian national, travelled around the world and mastered some foreign languages, before eventually met his wife and settling down. He served during the First World War, acting as the Chief of Staff for General Allenby for the majority of the conflict.〔 Eric Bols was born when his father was attending Staff College, and was educated in several institutions, including Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment on 30 January 1924.〔〔Dover, p. 157〕 He was promoted to Lieutenant on 31 January 1926, and in 1927, Bols was sent with his regiment to China, first being stationed in Hong Kong but later moving to Shanghai, his battalion being tasked with helping to keep the peace in the region. However, he did not stay for very long in China, with his early career being marked by a series of rapid transfers from region to region, and by 1928 he was stationed in Malta, where he found himself playing polo with then-Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was also stationed on the island at the same time.〔Dover, p. 158〕 From here his career progressed rapidly, appointed an instructor at the Signals School at Catterick Garrison from 27 June 1928 to 29 December 1931 and then becoming an officer of a Company of Cadets at Sandhurst from 6 May 1934 to 21 January 1935 and then to study at the Staff College, Camberley.〔 He was also promoted Captain from that date, transferring to the King's (Liverpool) Regiment, there being no vacancies in the Devonshires.〔
Bols returned to regimental duty for a few months from 22 December 1936, having completed the staff course. On 30 August 1937 he was seconded to the staff of the Ceylon Defence Force with the local rank of major.
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