Abstract
George Martin Lees, son of George Murray Lees of Edinburgh, was born at Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland, on 16 April 1898. He was educated at St Andrews College, Dublin (1906-1915) and immediately thereafter attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in preparation for taking part in the first world war, then in progress. From Woolwich he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery, in which he served in France. He soon transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and won the M.C. There followed a tour of duty as a flying instructor in Egypt, where he gained his first experience of the Middle East, a region on which he was later to become the leading geological authority. From Egypt he moved to Mesopotamia (now Iraq) and saw further active service in air operations, for which he was awarded the D.F.C. He took part in the capture of Kirkuk from the Turks and made a forced landing behind the Turkish lines in what is now the great Kirkuk oilfield, regaining the British lines with difficulty on foot.
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