Leslie Hollis

General Sir Leslie Chasemore Hollis KCB KBE (1897-1963) was a Royal Marines officer who became Commandant General Royal Marines.

Military career
Hollis was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1914 and served in World War I in the Grand Fleet and the Harwich Force. Between the Wars he served on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief Africa Station and of the Plans Division at the Admiralty before being appointed Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1936. He served in World War II as Senior Assistant Secretary in the War Cabinet Office. After the War he became Deputy Secretary (Military) to the Cabinet in 1947 and Commandant General Royal Marines in 1949. He was credited with saving the Royal Marines from being disbanded before he retired in 1952.