Walter Venning

General Sir Walter King Venning GCB CMG CBE MC (1882–1964) was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.

Military career
Educated at Allhallows College then in Honiton, Devon, Venning was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1901. He saw service with West African Frontier Force from 1907 to 1910.

He served in World War I initially as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the General Headquarters for the British Expeditionary Force and then as Assistant Adjutant General at the War Office.

After the War he became an Instructor at the Staff College and was then promoted to Assistant Adjutant General at the War Office in 1922. He was appointed Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General at Aldershot Command in 1927 and Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster General at Eastern Command in India in 1929. He became Commander 2nd (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade in India in 1931 and then Director of Movements and Quartering at the War Office in 1934.

He also served in World War II as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1939 to 1942; in this capacity he had responsibility for the War Office Fleet which he despatched to Dunkirk in 1940 to evacuate the troops.

His last posting was as Director General of the British Supply Mission in Washington D.C. from 1942 to 1946.

In his retirement he became Chairman of Governors for his old school, Allhallows.