worked as Director of the British National Cadet Association and as Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Tank Regiment, a ceremonial post. However, the Second World War broke out a few months after he had retired. He was recalled to duty and given command of the newly formed 9th (Highland) Infantry Division, a hastily mobilised second-line Territorial unit. He relinquished command in March 1940, and was appointed as a deputy regional civil defence commissioner for the South-West of England. In this post, he helped coordinate civil defence and recovery during air-raids, and in a brief interlude in 1942 delivered the Lees Knowles Lecture at Cambridge on "War on the civil and military fronts". In 1944, he became Commissioner of the British Red Cross and the Order of St. John for North-West Europe, overseeing relief work during the liberation of France and the Low Countries. Lindsay stepped down as Commissioner in 1946, and relinquished his ceremonial colonelcy of the Royal Tank Regiment in 1947. Finally retired, he served on a number of committees and councils, as diverse as the Army Boxing Association, the Anglo-Danish Society and the Educational Interchange Council, and in 1952 published a short pamphlet on "The Soviet-Communist Menace". He died in Epsom in 1956, survived by his wife and his surviving daughter, and leaving an estate of thirteen thousand pounds. His papers are held by the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, and by the Tank Museum at Bovington. References Bibliography External links Generals of World War II 1880 births 1956 deaths British Army personnel of World War I British Army generals of World War II Rifle Brigade officers Companions of the Order of the Bath Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Distinguished Service Order People educated at Radley College People educated at Sandroyd School Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley Royal Tank Regiment officers Recipients of the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal British Army major generals