CB recipients, surname D - K

See Christies 19 Jul 83. 

Born in Dublin on 28 May 1855. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, he gained a B.A., M.B. and B.Ch. and was appointed a F.R.C.S.I. in 1887. Appointed a Surgeon, afterwards a Surgeon-Captain, in the Army Medical Department in 1881, he served in the Egypt campaign of 1882 and also served with the Sudan Frontier Force, 1885-86. He was promoted to Surgeon-Major in 1893. He served in the South African War of 1899-1902, and took part in the relief of Ladysmith. Daly served as Regimental Medical Officer to the Royal Irish Fusiliers at Talana and was ordered by the S.M.O. to remain at Dundee with the wounded who were unable to travel, thus becoming a prisoner-of-war of Boers. He was released in January 1900. In February 1901 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and appointed the Principal Medical Officer of a Field Hospital with the local rank of Colonel. For his warttime services he was twice mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 30 March 1900, 4 February 1901) and awarded the C.B. (1901). He was placed on Retired Pay in 1909. He wrote 'Boer War Memories, Personal Experiences by Lieutenant-Colonel F A B Daly, CB'. The booklet, composed of 56 pages, details his experiences as the medical officer, tending the British and Boer wounded at Dundee.

CB (gold converted for neck wear), Egypt 1882, no bar (Surg F A B Daly AMD), QSA (5) Tal TH OFS RofL Tr (Lt Col CB Royal Army Medical Corps), KSA (2) (Lt Col MB CB Royal Army Medical Corps), Khedive's Star 1882.  Glendining 13 Dec 89.  DNW Dec 06 £1,800.

Dalzell, Lieutenant Colonel A M, Oxford Light Infantry

Entered I2th Foot 1870; Lieutenant Colonel, 1899.  Staff service:  ADC to GOC Brigade, Malta, 1884-85; Inspector of Gymnasia, Bengal and Punjab, 1892-96.  War service: Burma, 1889-92; Boer War, 1899-1900.

See his DSO entry.

Davidson, Colonel W Leslie

Entered 1869; Colonel, 1900.  Staff service: ADC (extra) to Commander in Chief in India, 1875-76; ADC to Governor and Commander in Chief, Gibraltar, 1881-82; Colonel on Staff for RA, South Africa, April 1900.  War service: Boer War, 1879; Ulundi, slightly wounded (Despatches; medal with clasp); Afghan War, 1880 (medal); Boer War, 1899-1900; on Staff.

Major Davies rendered excellent service with the 4th Contingent New Zealand Mounted Rifles.

Dawkins, Major J W G, Royal Artillery

Entered 2nd Foot 1873; Lieutenant Colonel ISC, 1899.  War service: Sudan Expedition 1885 (medal with clasp; bronze star); Operations in Chitral, 1895 (medal with clasp); Tirah, 1897-98(2 clasps); Boer War, 1899-1900; Commanding Mounted Infantry Corps.

De Lisle, Major H de B, DLI

Denny, Lieutenant Colonel H C, NthR

Donald, Lieutenant Colonel C G, Royal Fusiliers

Entered 1874; Lieutenant Colonel Royal Fusiliers, 1898.  Staff Service: ADC to Major General, Madras, May 1883 to December 1884, and December 1884 to January 1886.  War service: Afghan War, 1878-79 (medal); Boer War, 1899-1900.

Born in London, Oct 4, 1856, and is the eldest son of B J M Donne, of Crewkerne, Somerset. He was educated at Wellington College and abroad, and joined the 35th (Royal Sussex Regiment in 1875, and served in the West Indies and the Mediterranean, and under the Colonial Office as Local Commandant in the Cyprus Pioneer and Military Police from 1880-2; joined the Egyptian Army in 1883 under Sir E Wood and Sir F Grenfell, serving in it until 1893 in various campaigns and capacities. He organised the Camel Corps in 1885, and raised the 10th Sudanese Battalion in 1886; was Comdt. of Egyptian Military School at Cairo, 1890-3, and commanded the Egyptian troops at Alexandria in 1892 (3rd class Osmanieh). For his war services in 1882 he was awarded medal and Khedive's Star; clasp for the Nile Expedition, 1884-5, and 4th class Medjideh; Suakin Campaign, 1888, clasp and Brevet Major (despatches); Nile Campaign, 1889, 3rd class Medjideh and clasp (despatches); NW Front. India, 1897-8, with the 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (medal and two clasps). Colonel Donne took part in the Boer War in 1900-2, in command of the 1st Royal Sussex Regiment, including the march from Bloemfontein to Pretoria, the actions at Houtnek, Welkom Farm, Zand River, Dornkop, the capture of Johannesburg and Pretoria, and the battle at Diamond Hill. He was in command of the detached column at Retief's Nek, and was present at the surrender of the Boer forces at Golden Gate; commanded at the investment of Lindley (despatches, CB, medal and four clasps, KSA and two clasps). He married, in 1886, Cecil, daughter of Reverend Robert Hughes.

Donovan, Lieutenant Colonel W, Royal Army Medical Corps

Born in 1844 and is son of the 7th Viscount. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and joined the 2nd Life Guards in 1865, subsequently entering the 10th Hussars as Lieutenant Colonel in 1886, having previously served in the Zulu War with that regiment in 1879, and also acted as ADC to HRH the Duke of Connaught, and commanding the Meerut Division in India from 1883-5; acted as ADC to HRH the Duke of Cambridge from 1892-5, and commanded the Cavalry Brigade at the Curragh from 1897-9. He served throughout the Boer War in 1899-1902 (despatches), and represented HM the King as Special Envoy to the Shah of Persia in 1903. Viscount Downe retired from the Army in 1901 with the rank of Major-General. He married, in 1889, Cecilia, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Sefton.

Drury, Colonel C W, RCA

This notable officer commanded the Royal Canadian Artillery.

Charles Edward Duff, 8th Hussars. Born in 1858 and commissioned in the 8th Hussars in 1878 he was in charge of a 20 man detachment at Dakka Fort in the 2nd Afghan War. Promoted Lieutenant in 1881, Captain in 1885 and Major in 1893. He commanded the 1st Scottish Horse and then the 8th Hussars in the Boer War. Present at actions at Houtnek, Zand River, Reit Vlei and Belfast. Also present at Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill. He was wounded at Geluk. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in Nov 1900 and placed on the retired list in 1906. Twice MID for the Boer War and awarded the CB.

CB (m), Afghan (0), QSA (5) CC OFS Joh DH Belf, KSA (2), 1897 Jubilee.  See Spinks Auction Jul 98 for full size medals.  Miniatures, eBay Feb 07. 

He was born in 1855.  He entered the RA in 1874.  In 1876 he married Grace Wood, daughter of Oswald Wood, Punjab Uncovenanted Civil Service.  He served in the Afghan War between 1878 and 1879, and was with Lord Roberts at Kabul.  Following the Afghan War he joined the Indian Army and was gazetted to the 9th Bengal Infantry later 9th Gurkha Rifles.  In 1887 he entered Staff College from which he passed out in first place, returning to India, where he was employed at Army Headquarters first as an Attache and subsequently as DAAG.  He took part in the Isazai campaign and subsequently in the Waziristan expedition, including the action at Wano.  He was twice mentioned in despatches and made a Brevet Lieutenant Colonel.  Following the expedition he became Military Secretary to Sir George White, subsequently to Sir Charles Nairne and Sir William Lockhart.  He returned to England to take up the appointment of Assistant Military Secretary for Indian Affairs to Lord Wolseley.  In September 1899 he accompanied Sir George White to Natal as Military Secretary and was present during the siege of Ladysmith, as well as the actions at Elandslaagte, Rietfontein, and other fighting which preceded it.  Following the siege, he joined Lord Roberts' staff as Assistant Adjutant-General, and was present at the actions of Vet River, Sand River, the surrender of Johannesburg and other actions up to the occupation of Pretoria.  He returned to India in the beginning of 1901 as Deputy Adjutant-General.  For his services in the South African war he was made a CB.  He was appointed Brigadier-General to command the Allahabad district in 1902, appointed Adjutant-General in India and promoted Major-General in 1903.  In March 1906 he was promoted Lieutenant-General, on the same day was appointed Chief of the Staff to Lord Kitchener in India, and created KCVO.  In 1907 he became KCB and three years later KCSI.  He was promoted General in 1911 and GCB in the Coronation Honours of the same year.  In 1909 he became Military Secretary at the India Office, a post which he held until March 1914 when he was appointed C-in-C in India, and in the same year he was appointed ADC to the King.  At the outbreak of the Great War responsibility for Mesopotamia, important for its supply of oil, was delegated to the Government in India, who dispatched a brigade to the region to protect its interests. When the Ottoman Empire joined the war on the side of the Central Powers in November 1914 the brigade landed on al-Faw Peninsula where the Shatt al-Arab river meets the Persian Gulf.  In a rapid manoeuvre Basra, Mesopotamia's outlet to the Persian Gulf was captured, thus securing communications with India.  With such little resistance encountered it was considered that more could be achieved.  Without informing the government in Whitehall, Sir Beauchamp Duff ordered the C-in-C of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, General Nixon, to prepare a plan for conquering Baghdad.  To this end the force was strengthened to two divisions.  At first the campaign was a success and in September 1915 Kut was captured but in November at the battle of Ctesiphon the British division lost a third of its men and were forced to retreat to Kut where, following a five month siege, General Townsend and 13,000 men surrendered of these, many were to die on the march to, and in Turkish prisons.  In June 1917 a Royal Commission reported on who was to blame for ordering General Townsend to advance so far forward.  Townsend was exonerated but among those censured were Sir John Nixon, the Viceroy, Lord Hardinge and Sir Beauchamp Duff.  The criticism proved too much for the latter and on January 20 1918 he took his own life.

CIE, type 2, breast badge, in gold and enamels, KCVO neck badge (K114), 1903 Delhi Durbar, 1911 Coronation, Afghan (0) (Lieut. RA), IGS 1854 (1) Waziristan 1894-95 (Major Dy Aptt Adj Gl), QSA (5) CC Eland DofL OFS Joh (Colonel I. Staff Corps).

Full set of miniatures

Both groups sold by Morton and Eden, Jul 06 £7,500 and £1,300 respectively.  Pictures courtesy of Morton and Eden.

Dunlop, Lieutenant Colonel J W, RA

Earl of Albermarle, Lieutenant Colonel Arnold Allan Cecil Keppel, CIV

Served with the City Imperial Volunteers; late Dorset Militia; late Scots Guards.

Cornet 1869.  Colonel 1895.  Brigadier General commanding the Yeomanry Brigade in South Africa.  Retired 1907.  ADC to FM Wolseley.  Honorary Colonel of the 3^rd Gordon Highlanders.

CB gold HM 1882, QSA (4) RofK Paard Tr SA01 (Col, the Earl of), BWM, VM (Maj Gen, the Earl of), 1887 Jubilee (1), 1897 Jubilee, 1902 Coronation, TD GV.  Created KT.  Spinks 1970 £135.

Edge, Colonel J D, Royal Army Medical Corps

Entered 1871; Lieutenant Colonel, 1896.  War service: Engagement Orange Walk, B Honduras, 1872 (Promoted Staff Surgeon); South African War, 1879 (medal with clasp); Afghan War, 1879-80 (thanked by Government of India; medal with clasp); Egyptian Expedition, 1882 (medal with clasp; bronze star; 4th class Osmanieh); Burmese Expedition, 1887-89 (medal with 2 clasps);  South African War, 1899-1900, Stormberg.

Entered 1883; Major, 1897.  Staff service: AAG, South Africa, May 1900.  War service: Hazara Expedition 1888 (Despatches); Boer War, 1899-1900; Ladysmith, wounded 6th January.

Elliott, Major H, Tran T

Chief Magistrate, Tembuland, Cape of Good Hope.  Born 1826; son of Major J F Elliot. Married, first, 1865, a daughter of Mr J Drummond; second, 1879, a daughter of Mr W Gardner.  Entered the Army, Royal Marines, 1841; retired (Major), 1870; served in the Crimea, 1854-55, including Sebastopol and Balaclava (Despatches; medal with clasp; Turkish medal; 5th class Medjidie); South Africa, 1877-78 (CMG).

Entered 1870; Colonel, February 1900.  Staff service: ADC to Lieutenant General Commanding Afghan Campaign, 1880; ADC (prov.) to Commander in Chief, E Indies, 1881-82; ADC to Commander in Chief, E Indies, 1883-84; AAG, South Africa, February 1900.  War service: Afghan War, 1878-79 (medal); Boer War, 1899-1900 (Despatches, May 1900). 

Evans, Lieutenant Colonel E S, Royal Munster Fusiliers

Entered 1874; Lieutenant Colonel, 1896.  War service: Boer War, 1899-1900.

This officer rendered valuable service with the Royal Canadian Dragoons.

Ewart, Major J S, Cameron Highlanders

Entered 1881; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, 1898.  Staff service:  Garr.  Adjutant, Egypt, 1885-86; ADC to GOC Scottish District 1893-94; AMS to Governor and Commander in Chief, Malta, 1894-98; DAAG, W District 1898-99; Special Service, Natal, 1899; Brigade Major Infantry Brigade, South Africa, 1899-1900; AAG, South Africa, February 1900.  War service:  Egyptian Expedition 1882 (medal with clasp; bronze star); Sudan Expedition 1884-85 (clasp); Sudan, 1885-86 (Despatches; 5th class Medjidie); Nile Expedition 1898 (Despatches; Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel; Egyptian medal with clasp; medal); Boer War, 1899-1900; on Staff.

Includes Indian Mutiny and China

Fetherstonhaugh, Colonel R S R

Entered 1867; Colonel, August 1900.  Staff service: Station Commandant, South Africa, 1899; Infantry Brigade, South Africa, November 1899, February 1900; Major General, ' Infantry Brigade, Aldershot, August 1900.  War service: South African War, 1879; Sudan Expedition, 1885 (Despatches; medal with 2 clasps; bronze star; Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel); Boer War, 1899-1900, wounded Belmont (Despatches).

Entered 1874; Brevet Colonel, August 1900.  War Service: Afghan War, 1878-79-80 (Despatches, May and December 1880; medal with 3 clasps; bronze star); Mahsood Wuzeeree Expedition 1881 (Despatches); Boer War, 1899-1900' (Despatches, May 1900).

Fisher, Captain W B, Royal Navy

Gallwey, Lieutenant Colonel E J, Somerset Light Infantry

Entered 1870; Lieutenant Colonel, 1898.  Staff service: Adjutant Auxiliary Forces, 1885-90; Commandant School of Inst.  for Military and Volunteers, Aldershot, 1891.  War service:  Boer War, 1878-79; Sekukuni and Zulu Campaigns; Ulundi (medal with clasp); Boer War, 1899-1900.

Godfray, Lieutenant Colonel J W, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Entered 1871; Lieutenant Colonel, 1898.  Staff service: Adjutant Auxiliary Forces, 1881-82; DAA and QMG, Jersey, 1882-87; DAAG, Cyprus, 1893-94.  War service: Operations in Chitral, 1895 (Despatches; Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel; medal with clasp); Operations on NW Frontier of India, 1897-98 (2 clasps); Boer War, 1899-1900.

Commanded the South Australian Bushmen

Gordon, Lieutenant Colonel J R P, 15th Hussars

    ? Gordon, Brigadier General J B P, Commanding 3rd Cavalry Brigade

Gore, Lieutenant Colonel St J C, 5th Dragoon Guards

Born in 1859, he was the son of Mr Ralph Thomas Gore and was educated at Elizabeth College Guernsey, Winchester and the Royal Military College Sandhurst.  He was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the 19th Hussars in 1879, but the same year exchanged into the 5th Dragoon Guards. In the Soudan Expedition of 1884 he served in the Camel Corps.  The outbreak of the South African War found him a lieutenant colonel and he took part in the battles of Elandslaagte and Lombard’s Kop and he was in the siege of Ladysmith, being twice mentioned in despatches.  He was created CB in 1901.  In 1909 he was appointed a member of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms.  He was Standard Bearer in 1922 and lieutenant of HM Bodyguard from 1926-1938. During the 1914-18 war he was military secretary to Sir Archibald Murray.  He was created CBE in 1918 and knighted in 1930.  Sir St John Corbet Gore married in 1892 Isabella Charlotte, daughter of Mt P G Van der Byl.  She died in 1937 and there were no children of the marriage.

Knight Bachelor, CB (Military), CVO, CBE (Military), Egypt (1) ‘The Nile 1884-5’ (Lt 5 DG), QSA (4) Eland DofL OFS Tr (Lt Col CB 5 DG), KSA (2) (Lt Col CB 5 DG), 1911 Coronation, 1935 Jubilee, 1937 Coronation, Khedive’s Star 1884-5.

 

Graham, Lieutenant Colonel E R C, Cheshire Regiment

Entered 1878; Lieutenant Colonel, 1900.  Staff service: DAAG, Headquarters Madras, 1895; AAG India, 1895-99; Assistant Provost Marshal, South Africa, February 1900.  War service: Boer War, 1899-1900; on Staff. 

Grant , Lieutenant Colonel Edward James, Royal Scots

Served in the Egyptian Expedition in 1888, including the battle of Tel-el-Kebir (medal with clasp and bronze star), and the Boer War in 1899-1902, as Commandant at Kaffir River Bridge; present at the operations in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, including the action at Venterskroon, and the operations in the Orange River and Cape Colonies (despatches, QSA with three clasps, KSA with two clasps and CB).

Grove, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Aickin W , Royal West Kent Regiment

Born at Dolguog, Machynlleth. He was educated at Bedford School and joined the 2nd Royal Cheshire Militia in 1873, transferring to the 97th Regiment in the same year. He passed Staff College in 1883; was DAAG and QMG Canada from 1885 to 1887; DAAG Eastern District 1881-88; commanded the 2nd Battalion of the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment 1896-1901, receiving the brevet rank of Colonel in 1900, and was AAG and CSO Scotland in 1902. Colonel Grove has seen much active service, commencing with the Transvaal War in 1881. He was all through the Egyptian Expedition of 1882, being present at Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir, and acting as Assistant Provost Marshal to the 2nd Division (medal with clasp, Khedive's star, and brevet majority). He served in the Sudan Expedition of 1884-85 as DAAG and QMG (clasp), and in the Boer War commanded his regiment from 1899 to 1901, and afterwards commanded the sub-district of Krugersdorp (mentioned in despatches, CB, and medal with 4 clasps). He married, in 1887, Georgina, daughter of Reverend George Atkinson of Kettlethorpe, Lincs.

War service: Sudan Expedition 1884-85 (Despatches; medal with clasp; bronze star; Brevet of Major); Boer War, 1899-1900.

Hacket-Thompson, Lieutenant Colonel F, Cameron Highlanders

Attended Brasenose College, Oxford (1880-83).  Gained a pass degree but did not choose to receive it.  He was commissioned into 7^th Hussars and soon singled out as exceptionally able.  He served in 1898 at Omdurman.  Between 1899-1900 he served as Chief of Staff to French.  He acted as a column commander against the rebels in Cape Colony from 1900-1902.  Promoted Major General at 43.  Between 1906-07 helped Haldane in reorganisation of the Army.  1909-11 Chief of Staff to C in C India.  Commanded I Corps in 1914.  Commanded the First Army.  Commander-in-Chief British forces on the Western Front, 1915-1919.  1919-21 Commander-in-Chief Home Forces.  1921 founded British Legion to assist ex-servicemen.

Hall, Lieutenant Colonel F H, Royal Artillery

See Spinks Jun 85

Born 1854 and promoted to Lieutenant in 1873.  Served Afghan as ADC to Major General Primrose (MID).  Served in India as Superintendent of Signalling (MID twice).  During the Boer War served in command of the 2^nd Battalion The Queens from 1899 and served as Brigadier General commanding a Brigade.  Commanded a Brigade in India 1902-07.  Retired 1914.

[KCB (m)], Afghan (1) Khan (Lt 1/2^nd Foot), IGS (4) Burma 85-7 Burma 87-9 Haz 91 Waz 94-5 (Capt 2 RWSR), QSA (5) TH OFS RofL Tr LN (Brig Gen RWSR), KSA (2) (Col CB The Queen’s), 1911 Coronation, 1935 Jubilee.  Lusted Apr 85 £1250.  Spinks 13 Dec 94

Harbord, Lieutenant Colonel C, Scots Guards

Charles Harbord was born on 14 June 1855, the eldest son of Charles, the 5th Baron Suffield.  He was educated at Eton and entered the Scots Fusilier Guards as an Ensign on 30 April 1873 and was promoted Lieutenant in April 1875.  He was ADC to the Governor-General of Canada (Lord Lorne), November 1878 to December 1880 and ADC to three successive Viceroys of India, Lord Dufferin, February 1882 to December 1884; Lord Ripon, December 1884 to March 1886 and Lord Landsdowne, December 1888 to January 1894.  He was promoted Captain in 1887.  Harbord was appointed Groom-in-Waiting in Ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1895 and promoted Major in 1896.  Appointed second in command of the 2nd Scots Guards in December 1899, he then served in the Boer War, arriving with his regiment in May 1900.  He took command of the 1st Scots Guards in July 1901 and was to bring them home at the war’s end in September 1902.  During the war he served in operations in the Orange River Colony, May to November 1900, including the actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen; operations in Transvaal, February 1901 and operations in the Orange River Colony, July 1901 to May 1902.  For his various services he was awarded the CB on 23 November 1900 and mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901).  He was created a MVO on 9 November 1902 and retired from the Army on 10 April 1904.  He succeeded his father as the 6th Baron Suffield in April 1914 and served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, 1915-18.  Baron Suffield died on 10 February 1924.

CB (Military) n/b, MVO 4th Class officially numbered 104, QSA (3) CC Tr Witt (Lt. Col. Hon., C.B., Scots Gds.), KSA (2) (Lt. Col. The Hon., C.B., Scots Gds.), 1897 Jubilee, 1903 Delhi Durbar, 1911 Coronation.  DNW Apr 04 £2,300.  

Harris, Lieutenant Colonel R H W , East Surrey Regiment

Entered 1870; Lieutenant Colonel East Surrey Regiment, December 1896.  Staff service: Adjutant Auxiliary Forces, 1884-89.  War service: Afghan War, 1878-80 (medal); Mahsood Wuzeeree Expedition 1881 (Despatches); Boer War, 1899-1900; Willow Grange; Ladysmith Relief Force, wounded, 22nd February.

Henderson, Lieutenant Colonel G F R

Colonel George Francis Robert Henderson, CB, was born in St. Helier, Jersey in June 1854 and was educated at Leeds Grammar School where his clergyman father was Headmaster, and at St John's College, Oxford. He was originally intended for the Church but at the University failed to do justice to early academic promise and, having set his heart on a military career, passed into Sandhurst in 1877, 'an exceptionally well-grown young man'. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant the next year into the 65th Foot at the advanced age of 24 years, he served briefly in India before being promoted to a Lieutenantcy in the 84th Foot, the linked Battalion, at Dover. In 1882 he took part with his Regiment in the Egyptian Campaign and distinguished himself in the field, leading a half Company in action at El Magfar and Tel-el-Mahouta. He also commanded a Company at Kassassin, and at Tel-el-Kebir a few days later he led it into a redoubt occupied by the enemy, 'it being rather marvellous that he was not killed in the performance of this brave action, for the first man - almost always an Officer - in every other case of the kind was shot dead'.

At the end of the Campaign Henderson returned home with a Mention in Despatches and the promise of a Brevet promotion, and entertained hopes of joining the Egyptian Gendarmeri having been recommended by General Graham. This, however, was not to come about, and he married in 1883 Mary Joyce, who was to prove 'a true helpmeet to her husband' in his literary endeavours which eventually brought him world-wide fame. The period 1884-85 was spent in Bermuda on a tour of duty with the 84th, and while there it first occurred to Henderson to study the American Civil War, Americans being frequent visitors to the Island and communication with the mainland being easy: 'A visit to Virginia to study battlefields followed, and this he did to such good purpose that when he later paid them a second visit, his knowledge of the ground and his grasp of the circumstances under which the various battles had been fought, excited the astonishment of the men who had themselves taken part in the stirring events .... Twelve years later his labours resulted in the definitive study of the war of secession and his hero, Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War'.
In 1886 Henderson was promoted Major by Brevet and produced The Campaign of Fredricksburg, A Tactical Study for Officers. In 1889, with a growing reputation as a writer and lecturer, he was sent by Lord Wolseley to Sandhurst to become Instructor on Tactics, Military Administration and Law. In 1892 he was transferred to the Staff College as Professor of Military Art and History where he was more readily placed to influence the thinking of those likely to command in future wars. John Terraine, the author of Douglas Haig the Educated Soldier, writes of his subject's time at Camberley: 'Among the instructors was Colonel G.F.R. Henderson, whose biography on Stonewall Jackson remains a standard to this day. Henderson's studies of the American Civil War supplied an enlargement of the mental horizons of British Officers which was not matched on the Continent, where the American example was disregarded, on the broad grounds that it was no more than a vast scuffle of amateurs, without interest to professional soldiers. Nothing could have been more wrong than this view. The pity is that British Officers did not profit more than they did from Henderson's enlightened teachings, but if he was not able to save the Generals from disastrous mistakes at the outbreak of the South African War, such flexibility as the Army later developed in that theatre was probably due to him as much as to any, while his direct influence on the strategy of Roberts, when the veteran Field Marshal took command, is widely acknowledged. A longer distance result of his teachings may be seen in the sympathy with which Haig, almost alone among senior Regular Officers, approached the problems of the Citizen Army. The essence of Civil War studies is the creation of a mass Army from a tiny standing force; this was to become the essence of Britain's problem too, when she was drawn into the conflict of the Continental giants'.

Henderson's abilities were not lost on Lord Roberts and in the Winter of 1899-1900 Henderson accompanied him and his Chief of Staff, Major-General Lord Kitchener, to South Africa in the Dunottar Castle, as Director of Military Intelligence. In a posthumous memoir of Henderson, published as the foreword to a collection of Henderson's essays and lectures, The Science of War, Roberts recorded, 'I was convinced that he was well fitted for Staff employ in the field, and that, given the opportunity, he would be able to turn his knowledge to practical account - I therefore applied for his services. My request was granted, with the result that Henderson accompanied me to South Africa, and, on my taking over the command in January 1900, I appointed him Director of Intelligence. He threw himself into his work with his usual energy, and did much to reorganise and extend this most important department'.

Reaching Cape Town on 10.1.1900, Henderson was given virtual carte blanche by Roberts, and immediately engineered the transfer from London of one of his brightest former pupils, Captain (later Field Marshal) William R. Robertson. He arranged from such sources as were available, the collection of maps of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, which though by no means perfect, were, as Roberts later acknowledged, of the utmost service when the advance into the Transvaal began. When Robertson reached Roberts' Headquarters on 20.1.1900, Henderson was occupied in creating an elaborate deception plan to keep the Boers in doubt as to the planned route of advance into the Orange Free State. In From Private to Field Marshal Robertson records that, 'Henderson, always an ardent advocate for mystifying and misleading the enemy, was especially active, and revelled in the deceits he practiced. He sent out fictitious telegrams to commanders in clear, and then on one excuse or another countermanded them in cipher; circulated false orders implying a concentration of troops at Colesberg ... gave confidential tips to people eager for news whom he knew would at once divulge them ... On the whole it is probable that no military plan was ever kept better concealed from friend or foe. At the same time Henderson further oversaw the infiltration of Dutch-speaking men into General Piet Cronje's Commandos, with a promise of substantial pecuniary reward if they brought in useful information. Indeed Cronje's intentions were revealed in this manner.

In South Africa Henderson's influence extended beyond the realm of intelligence for here his boys of the Staff College came to him at all hours, eager to discuss those actual problems of war which they had so often studied in theory, glad of the chance given them of referring their doubts and difficulties to the instructor the influence of whose teaching they still felt.

Unfortunately, in May 1900, as Roberts neared Paardeberg, Henderson health broke down and he was invalided to England, having proved himself in the few months he was in South Africa an outstanding Chief of Intelligence. On his recovery, in August 1901, he was appointed to write the official history of the South African War, and returned to South Africa that autumn. As ever he worked incessantly as Roberts recorded in concluding his memoir, 'For a short time after his arrival Henderson improved in health and applied himself with his wonted zeal to the work in hand. He laboured continually until the end of 1902, when it became only too evident that he had overtaxed his strength, and that he could not, in his weakened state, get through an English Winter. He was, therefore, ordered to Egypt, where he continued to work almost to the last day of his life. Towards the end of February Henderson took a turn for the worse, and the end came at Assouan on March 5, 1903'.

CB (mil, b/b), Egypt (1) Tel-el-Kebir (Lieut., 2/York & Lane. R.), QSA (3) CC OFS Tr (Colonel, CB, Staff), KSA (2) (Lt. Col, CB, Staff); Turkey, Order of the Medjidjie, Fifth Class breast Badge, silver, gold and enamel centre, Khedive's Star 1882.

Spink Jul 75.  Spink Jun 85.  Spink 25 Sep 01.

Born in London, April 3, 1855; is the third son of the 4th Lord Henniker; was educated at Eton and Cambridge (BA); entered the Coldstream Guards in 1875, the 2nd Battalion of which he has commanded since November 29, 1902. He served in Egypt in 1882 (medal and bronze star), and in the Boer War, 1899-1902, with brevet rank of Colonel (QSA and six clasps, and KSA and two clasps). He married the second daughter of Lord Houghton.

Henry, Major G C, Northumberland Fusiliers

Entered 1880; Brevet Colonel, March 1900.  Staff service: Employed with Egyptian Army.  War service: Expedition to Dongola, 1896 (Despatches; Egyptian medal with 2 clasps); Nile Expedition 1897 (clasp to Egyptian medal); Nile Expedition 1898 (Despatches, September and December 1898; Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel; clasp to Egyptian medal; medal); Nile Expedition 1899 (Despatches; Brevet of Colonel); Boer War, 1899-1900; commanded 4th Corps Mounted Infantry.

Hicks, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Tempest, Royal Dublin Fusiliers

Born in 1852, and is son of G H Tempest Hicks. He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge University, where he won the Freshmen's hurdles and the 100 yards' race in 1872. He served in the Boer War in 1899-1902, and during that time he commanded several columns, on one occasion capturing Commdt. Geo. Hall and twenty of his commando (despatches, QSA and five clasps, KSA and two clasps, and CB). He also served in the Aden Hinterland in 1902, and retired with the brevet of Colonel in 1903. He married, in 1885, Anne, daughter of Charles Hemery, of Gladsmuir, Herts.

Hickman, Colonel Thomas Edgcomb,

See his DSO entry. 

Entered 1867; Brevet Colonel, 1899.  Staff service: ADC to Brigadier General, Aldershot, 1883-84; ADC to Major General, Gibraltar, 1884-88.  War service:  Operations in Chitral, 1895 (medal with clasp); Boer War, 1899-1900; Driefontein, severely wounded.

Hickson, Major T E, Worcester Regiment

Hinde, Lieutenant Colonel J H E, 1st Battalion Border Regiment

Entered 1867; Brevet Colonel, 1899.  Staff service: Adjutant Auxiliary Forces, 1883-88.  War Service: Boer War, 1899-1900; Willow Grange.

Richard Lionel Hippisley, born 1853, was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich.  He joined the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of Colonel by 1904.  He served in the Egyptian campaign of 1882 and was an instructor at the School of Military Engineering in Chatham, Kent.  He served on the staff in the South African War (1899-1902) as Director of Telegraphs and took part in the advance on Kimberley and in operations in Orange Free State and Transvaal.  He was mentioned in despatches 8 February 1901, 16 April 1901 and 29 July 1902.  He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 29 November 1900.  Colonel 1902.  Chief Engineer, Edinburgh, 1902.  He retired in 1910.  In the First World War he served as Deputy Director of Army Signals, Central Force.  After retiring he became interested in the Boy Scout movement and was awarded the Scout Medal of Merit on 22 January 1930.  He was the author of an article on 'Linkages' in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and also wrote 'History of the Telegraph Operations during the South African War, 1899-1902'.  He was also a mathematician of very considerable ability.  He married Violet Honoria Smyth, daughter of Major General John Hall Smyth of Frimhurst, Surrrey, on 4th November 1885.  He died on 7 December 1936.

QSA (3) CC Paard Joh (Lt Col CB RE).  Spinks Apr 05

Hipwell, Lieutenant Colonel Alfred George, Army Service Corps

Born in Dublin, March 16, 1863, and is the only son of George B Hip well. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1883, and joined the Army Service Corps in 1873; was DAAG of Thames District 1895-8; served in the Boer War, 1899-1902 (mentioned in despatches, QSA with clasp, KSA and two clasps, CB). He was Colonel on the Staff as Director of Supplies, 1902-4. He married, November 24, 1886, Annie, only daughter of the Reverend W R C Cockill.

Hughes-Hallett, Lieutenant Colonel J W, SH

See his DSO entry.

Jerome, Major H J W, RE

Born May 1, 1852, and is the youngest son of Ven. John E Johnson, DD, Archdeacon of Ferns. He was educated at Cheltenham Coll, and Dublin University, entered the Army in 1874, and served in the 69th Foot at Gibraltar. He was transferred to the 5Oth Foot in 1878, and was attached to the Commissariat and Transport Staff in 1881. Colonel Johnson served in the Egyptian Campaign in 1882 as transport officer in the Cavalry Div. (medal and clasp for Tel-el-Kebir; bronze star, 4th class Medjidieh). He was transferred to the Army Service Corps in 1889, and acted as AAG on the Headquarters Staff, South Africa, as Assistant Director of Supplies, and Transport to Sir Edward Ward from 1899-1900. In 1900 he was sent on a special mission from Paardeberg by Lord Roberts to Mr Cecil Rhodes at Kimberley (medal and three clasps, despatches, and CB); was AAG of the NE District from 1900 to 1903, when he was appointed Director of Supply and Transport to the 4th Army Corps. Since 1905 he has acted as Administrator of the Eastern command. Recreations: Cricket, football, hunting, shooting, and golf. He married Bertha, daughter of Henry Gotts, of Newhouse Park, St Albans.

Johnson, Lieutenant Colonel H H , Royal Army Medical Corps

Naval Cadet, September 1863; Captain, January 1,1895; is serving as Captain on the Victory at Portsmouth.  He was Lieutenant of the Carysfort during the Egyptian War of 1882 (Egyptian medal; Khedive's bronze star); also during the naval and military operations near Suakin in the Eastern Sudan, 1884 (Suakin clasp); highly commended by General Buller in his despatches for the manner in which he fought his guns and silenced every one of the enemy's guns that could be located at Colenso on December 15, 1899; also for the smart manner in which the heavy guns of the brigade were brought into action on Sunday, June 10, 1900, when the troops concentrated on Klip River at the junction with Gans Vlei Stream;

Jones, Colonel I R, Scots Guards

Entered 1866; Colonel, 1890.  Staff service:  Major General Guards Brigade, South Africa, April 1900.  War service: Sudan Expedition 1885 (medal with clasp; bronze star); Boer War, 1899-1900; on Staff.

Kekewich, Lieutenant Colonel R G, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Robert George Kekewich was born on the 17 Jun 1854, the second son of Trehawke Kekewich of Peamore in Devon.  Educated at Marlborough, he entered the army through the militia in 1874.  His first campaign service was with the Perak expedition of 1875-6 where he was awarded the medal and clasp.  His second war service was with the Soudan expedition of 1888 as DAAG and QMG of British troops.  Took part in the action at Gemaizah and was MID, LG 11 Jan 1889.  Awarded the medal and two clasps and the 4th class of the Medjidie.  During the South African War he served in command of the 1st Batt the Loyal North Lancs Regt to Dec 00 and as commander Griqualand West and Bechuanaland.  In command of a mobile column from Dec 00 to Jan 01 and from Jul 01 to Jan 02 and afterwards in command of a group of mobile columns from Feb 02 to the end of hostilities.  He was severely wounded at Moedwil on the 30 Sep 1900. He was MID thrice LG 8 May 00, 3 Dec 01 and 29 Jul 02.  Granted Brevet of Colonel, promoted Major General for distinguished service.  Queen’s medal with 3 claps, King’s medal with 2, CB.   The ‘Times’ of 6 November 1914 recorded, ‘Major General R G Kekewich was found dead yesterday morning at his residence at Whimple, near Exeter with a gunshot in the head.  He was recently invalided from Salisbury Plain where he was in command of a division.  His title to fame was his successful defence of Kimberley during the South African War.  The ‘Times’ of 7 November 1914: The late General Kekewich. The Major, Coucillors and Citizens of Kimberley South Africa yesterday passed a resolution recalling ‘with deepest gratitude their immense obligations to Major General Kekewich and sincerely deplored his death’.  At the inquest in Whimple Devon yesterday it was stated he suffered from suppressed gout, insomnia and an unsatisfactory state of the heart.  He worried over being unable to serve his country and great waves of depression overcame him.  The verdict ‘suicide whilst temporarily insane’ was returned.  The funeral will take place at Exminster on Monday.  Funerals, The ‘Times’ 10 November 1914 (page 11e): The Funeral of Major General Kekewich took place with military honours yesterday at St Martin’s Church Exminster, south Devon. Amongst those who sent wreaths were the citizens of Kimberley, and HM the King of Denmark.  Messages of condolence were received from the Earl Kitchener, Sir Robert and Lady Baden-Powell and Sir Archibald Hunter.

Miniatures only DNW Apr 03 £630.

Kelham, Lieutenant Colonel H R, Highland Light Infantry

Entered 1873; Lieutenant Colonel, 1899.  Staff service: Fort Adjutant, Hong-Kong, 1878-79; Brigade Major, Straits Settlements, 1879.  War service: Egyptian Expedition 1882 (medal with clasp; bronze star); Boer War, 1899-1900; with Kimberley Relief Force; Magersfontein, slightly wounded, also severely August 1900.

Kelly, Lieutenant Colonel N W, Victoria Contingent

This officer served with the Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

Keogh, Lieutenant Colonel A, Royal Army Medical Corps

Kirkpatrick, Lieutenant Colonel W J, 1st Battalion York and Lancashire Regiment

Entered 1874; Lieutenant Colonel, 1897.  Staff Service: Adjutant Auxiliary Forces.  War service:  Egyptian Expedition 1882 (Despatches; medal with clasp; bronze star; Brevet of Major).

Entered 1876; Brevet Colonel, 1898.  Staff Service: DAAG for Inst, Bombay, 1891-96; Special Service, Egypt, 1896; Specially employed with Egyptian Army, 1897-99; Brigadier General, Infantry Brigade, South Africa, 1900.  War service: Afghan War, 1878-79-80 (Despatches; medal with clasp); Expedition to Dongola (Despatches; Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel; 4th Class Osmanieh; Egyptian medal with 2 clasps); Nile Expedition 1897; Nile Expedition 1898(Despatches; Brevet of Colonel; 3rd class Medjidie; 3 clasps to Egyptian medal; medal); Boer War, 1899-1903 (Despatches); on Staff.