British Army Lieutenant General. He enrolled in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1888, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery in July 1890, and was stationed in India until 1897, when he returned to England. He was sent to South Africa during the Second Boer War and was wounded at the Battle of Magersfontein, but recovered and returned to duty. Following the war, he returned to India for another five years until 1910, and then was posted to Egypt, where he stayed until the start of the First World War (August 1914). He served on the Western Front from December 1914 to the Armistice, rising from the rank of captain in charge of an artillery battery to the rank of Major General and the command of the 9th (Scottish) Division. He continued to command this formation after 11 November 1918, as part of the Army of the Rhine, until the 9th Division was disbanded in March 1919. In May 1920, he was appointed 'Police Adviser' to the Dublin Castle administration in Ireland and promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General. He remained in that position through the Irish Rebellion period (or Anglo-Irish War) until his forces had been demobilized. In May 1922, Sir Winston Churchill (who was now Secretary of State for the Colonies) sent him to the Palestine Mandate, where he became Director of Public Safety, with the temporary rank of Air Vice-Marshal. The following month he became the air officer commanding the British Roral Air Force's Palestine Command, serving until February 1924 when he retired from the Army. He then emigrated to Newfoundland, where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1923 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. His other military awards include the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, the Commander, Order of Leopold, and the French Croix de Guerre. He died around the age of 94.