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Born 1864; educated in Jersey and at Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into 2 Bn, Durham Light Infantry, Gibraltar, 1883; employed with Mounted Infantry, Frontier Field Force, Egypt and the Sudan, 1885-1886; Battle of Giniss, Sudan, 1885; awarded DSO for service in an attack by Arabs on fort at Ambigole Wells, Egypt, 1886; Capt, 1891; Adjutant, 2 Bn, Durham Light Infantry, Poona, Bombay, India, 1892-1896; attended Staff College, 1899; served with Mounted Infantry, Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; Relief of Kimberley, Orange Free State, South Africa, 1900; awarded CB, 1900; raised and commanded 6 Mounted Infantry Regt and a Mobile Column, South Africa, 1900-1902; Maj, 1902; Brevet Lt Col, 1902; service with 5 Dragoon Guards, 1902; Commanding Officer, 2 Provincial Regt of Hussars, Hounslow, Middlesex, 1902-1903; Second in Command, 1 (Royal) Dragoons, 1903; Lt Col, 1906; Brevet Col, 1906; Commanding Officer, 1 (Royal) Dragoons, 1906-1910; Col, 1910; General Staff Officer 1, 2 Div, Aldershot Command, 1910-1911; temporary Brig Gen, 1911-1914; commanded 4 Cavalry Bde, Eastern Command, 1911; commanded 2 Cavalry Bde, Southern Command, 1911-1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commanded 2 Cavalry Bde, 1 Cavalry Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), France, 1914; temporary Maj Gen, 1914-1915; General Officer Commanding 1 Cavalry Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), Western Front, 1914-1915; Maj Gen, 1915; General Officer Commanding 29 Div, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 1915-1916; temporarily commanded 9 Corps, Gallipoli, 1915; General Officer Commanding 29 Div, Western Front, 1916-1918; created KCB, 1917; temporary Lt Gen, 1918; General Officer Commanding 13 Corps, Western Front, Mar 1918; General Officer Commanding 15 Corps, British Armies in France, Apr 1918; Lt Gen, 1919; created KCMG, 1919; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command, 1919-1923; Gen, 1926; retired 1926; died 1955. Publications: Polo in India (Thacker, Bombay, India, 1907); Tournament polo (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1938); Reminiscences of sport and war (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1939).