were junior to him. Promoted to the permanent rank of major-general in 1947, Rees took the job as head of the Military Committee of the Indian Emergency Cabinet until he retired from the army in 1948. Rees was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Monmouthshire on 15 January 1955. Personal life Rees was married in 1926 to Agatha Rosalie Innes, only daughter of Sir Charles Alexander Innes, a career India Civil Service officer and Governor of Burma from 1927 to 1932. They had one son, the Cabinet minister Peter Wyford Innes Rees (later Lord Rees), and one daughter. John Masters noted in one of his autobiographies (The Road Past Mandalay) that Pete Rees was an abstinent (he "spoke softly, never swore, never drank, did not smoke." but also, "always wore a small kind smile"). According to Masters, Rees was a polyglot and spoke English, Welsh, "...Urdu, Marathi, Pushtu, Burmese, and Tamil. Now he asked me to teach him Gurkhali, and soon he knew enough to cause a look of startled pleasure to cross many a stolid Gurung face." Masters also said of Rees that he had a "rare, personal gentleness and unfailing good manners". Military career Passed out from Officer Cadet College, Quetta and commissioned 2nd lieutenant into the Indian Army unattached list (1915) Attached to 73rd Carnatic Infantry (1915) Attached to 125th Napier's Rifles (later 5th (Napier's) battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles) Awarded DSO while in Egypt – (1919) Staff Captain in Wazir Force, Waziristan – (1922–1925) Staff Officer (Intelligence) (GSO3), India – (1925–1926) Instructor, Royal Military College, Sandhurst – (1926–1928) Private Secretary to Governor of Burma – (1928–1930) Attended Staff College, Camberley (1931–1932) Promoted to major (November 1933) Staff Officer (GSO3), India – (1934) Waziristan, North West Frontier, India – (1935–1937) Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, India – (1936–1937) Appointed brevet lieutenant-colonel for "distinguished services in the field ...in Waziristan during the period 25 November 1936 and 16 January 1937" – (1937)) General Staff Officer Grade 2, Waziristan District, North West Frontier, India – (1937–1938) Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion, 6th Rajputana Rifles, India – (1938–1939) General Staff Officer 1, Indian 4th Infantry Division, North Africa and Sudan – (1940–1941) Commanding Officer, 10th Indian Brigade, Sudan – (1941–1942) General Officer Commanding, Indian 10th Infantry Division, Middle East – North Africa – (1942) General Officer Commanding, Indian 19th Infantry Division, Burma – (1942–1945) Permanent rank advanced to Colonel. General Officer Commanding, Indian 4th