Henry Sclater

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Sir Henry Crichton Sclater , GCB , GBE (born November 5, 1855 in Sussex , England - † September 26, 1923 in Petworth , Sussex, England) was a British general in the British Army who served as Lieutenant General during World War I between 1914 and 1916 army adjutant General of the (adjutant General to the Forces) , and then from 1916 to 1919 commander in chief of the army Southern Command (Southern Command) and was promoted in 1919 to general. Most recently, he was General Commander of the Royal Artillery between 1919 and 1922 .

Life

Officer training, Mahdi uprising and the Second Boer War

Henry Crichton Sclater, second son of Deputy Lieutenant James Henry Sclater and his wife Louisa Catherine Fowler, whose father Robert Fowler was also a county deputy lieutenant , began officer training at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich after attending the public school in Cheltenham . After graduation he was promoted to the Royal Artillery of the British Army as a lieutenant in 1875 and to captain in 1883 . He then served between 1884 and 1885 as a staff officer and assistant quartermaster of the Gordon Relief Expedition commanded by Garnet Wolseley , the so-called "Nile Expedition", to save Governor General Charles George Gordon in Sudan from the Mahdi uprising . Subsequently, in 1885 he was awarded the brevet rank of major, whereupon he was in Egypt between 1885 and 1886 first with the Frontier Field Force and then from 1886 to 1890 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General of the Army troops at the headquarters in Cairo .

Promoted to Major in 1891 Sclater 1892-1895 Deputy of assistive Adjutant General at the headquarters of the Royal Artillery in was Ireland and subsequently changed from 1895 to 1898 as deputy of assistive Inspector General for support to the Ministry of War ( War Office ) . After a brief employment between 1898 and 1899 Brigade Major of the Royal Artillery in the Aldershot garrison , he took part in South Africa in the Second Boer War (October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902). There he was initially between 1899 and 1900 staff officer of the Royal Artillery and finally from 1900 to 1902 assistant adjutant general and colonel on the staff of the Royal Artillery. In this position he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1900 and also received the brevet rank of colonel. At the end of the Boer War, he became Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1902 and was promoted to colonel at the same time . Subsequently, between 1902 and 1904 he was first deputy general director for support and in 1904 briefly director for artillery in the War Ministry.

British India, World War I, and promotion to general

In May 1904, Henry Sclater was transferred back to British India , where Major General James Wolfe Murray was replaced as Quartermaster General of the British Indian Army . He remained in this post until his replacement by Gerald Kitson in November 1908 and was promoted to major general in this role in 1906 . He himself then took over from Lieutenant General Edward Locke Elliot in November 1908 as commander of the 8th Division (8th (Lucknow) Division) stationed in Lucknow and was replaced there in June 1909 by Lieutenant General Bryan Mahon . He was then in July 1909 as the successor to Major General Ralph Arthur Penrhyn Clements new commander of the 4th Division (4th (Quetta) Division) of the Indian Army stationed in Quetta . He held this post until his replacement by Lieutenant General Malcolm Henry Stanley Grover in November 1912, where he was also promoted to Lieutenant General in 1911 .

Henry Crichton Sclater was beaten on June 3, 1913 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and has since had the suffix "Sir". A few months before the start of the First World War , Lieutenant General Sclater succeeded Lieutenant General Spencer Ewart as Adjutant-General to the Forces in April 1914 and was as such a member of the Army Council until his replacement by General Nevil Macready in February 1916 ) . For his services during this time, he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) on February 22, 1916 . Most recently, he took over from Lieutenant General William Pitcairn Campbell in March 1916 as Commander-in-Chief of the Army Command South (Southern Command) stationed in Tidworth Camp and held this position until June 1919, when General George Montague Harper succeeded him there. On January 1, 1919, he was also raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) and he was also promoted to General . Most recently, he was Commandant General of the Royal Artillery from 1920 until his retirement .

On June 12, 1884, Sclater married Edith Hariet Barttelot, daughter of long-time member of the House of Commons Walter Barttelot, 1st Baronet , who in 1918 herself was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). The marriage remained childless.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: Since 1860 , p. 345
  2. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: Since 1860 , p. 417
  3. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: Since 1860 , p. 403
  4. ↑ a b c Knights and Dames
  5. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: Since 1860 , p. 7
  6. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: Since 1860 , p. 105
personal data
SURNAME Sclater, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sclater, Henry Crichton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Sussex , England
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1923
Place of death Petworth , Sussex , England