Evelyn Barker

Sir Evelyn Hugh Barker
Barker (centre) then as commander of VIII Corps, with the Flag Officer Rear Admiral H. T. Baillie-Grohman and two aides on the Admiral's barge during a tour of Kiel harbour, Germany, May 1945.
Nickname(s)	"Bubbles"
Born	22 May 1894
Died	23 November 1983 (aged 89)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1913–1950
Rank	General
Unit	King's Royal Rifle Corps
Commands held	2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps 10th Infantry Brigade 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division VIII Corps British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan Eastern Command
Battles/wars	World War I World War II Palestine Emergency
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Military Cross

General Sir Evelyn Hugh Barker KCB KBE DSO MC (22 May 1894 – November 1983) was a senior British Army officer who saw service in both World War I and World War II, where he commanded the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division and later VIII Corps in the Western Europe Campaign. He was also commander of the British forces in Palestine from 1946 to 1947. Barker is remembered for his antisemitism and his order, following the King David Hotel bombing, that (We) will be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes as much as any, by striking at their pockets and showing our contempt of them.

The son of a high-ranking officer, Major-General Sir George Barker, Evelyn Barker was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC), in 1913. He served with the 3rd Battalion and was sent the next year to the Western Front of World War I. He fought in France, took part in the Thessaloniki (in Greece) operation, and was wounded and decorated. In 1919, still with the KRRC, Barker took part in the British military expedition against the Bolsheviks in the south of the former Russian Empire.