Smith-Dorrien, Horace Lockwood

Date of birth:: May 26th, 1858 (Haresfoot-Berkhamsted/Hertfordshire, England)
Date of death:: August 12th, 1930 (Chippenham/Wiltshire, England)
Nationality:: British

Biography

Promotions:
April 1st, 1882: Captain;
May 1st, 1892: Major;
May 20th, 1898: brevet Lieutenant-Colonel;
November 16th, 1898: brevet Colonel;
January 1st, 1899: substantive Lieutenant-Colonel;
February 11th, 1900: Major General;
April 9th, 1906: Lieutenant General;

Career:
February 26th, 1867: Royal Military College, Sandhurst;
1877: 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot;
1878: Transport Officer, Royal Artillery;
August 22nd, 1882: Assistant Chief of Police, Alexandria;
September 3rd, 1882: Commanding Officer, Mounted Infantry Egypt;
1887: Staff College, Camberly;
April 1st, 1893: Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Bengal;
July 16th, 1898: Commanding Officer, 13th Sudanese Battalion;
January 1st, 1899: Commanding Officer Sherwood Foresters;
February 2nd, 1900: Commanding Officer 19th Brigade;
November 6th, 1901: Adjudant-General, India;
June 30th, 1903: Commanding Officer, 4th (Quetta) Division;
December 1st, 1907: General Officer Commanding Aldershot Command;
1911: Aide de Camp King George V;
March 1st, 1912: General Officer Commanding Southern Command;
1914: Commanding Officer Home Defence Army;
?: Commanding Officer, II Corps, British Expeditionary Forces;
June 22nd, 1915: General Officer Commanding First Home Army;
November 22nd, 1915: General Officer Commanding East Africa;
January 29th, 1917: Lieutenant Tower of London;
July 9th, 1918: Governor of Gibraltar;
September 1923: Retirement.