Thomas Jacomb Hutton
Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton , KCB , KCIE , MC & bar ( 27 March 1890 – 17 January 1981 ) was a British Army officer who held a variety of vital staff appointments between World War I and World War II , ultimately commanding the "Burma Army" during the early stages of the Japanese conquest of Burma in early 1942 . 
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