Herbert Chermside

Herbert Charles Chermside

Sir Herbert Charles Chermside GCMG CB (born July 31, 1850 in Wilton , † September 24, 1929 in London ) was a British officer and diplomat .

Life

He was a student at Eton College and attended the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , where he graduated and was appointed officer of the Royal Engineers .

1871 visited Chermside with some comrades Paris during the Paris Commune and the support was Communards indicted. Sentenced to death, he narrowly managed to escape. After being stationed in Ireland , he took part in Benjamin Leigh Smith's third expedition to Spitzbergen in 1873 . An island north of northeast land is now called Chermsideøya .

In 1876 he was sent to the Ottoman Empire to train the Ottoman military after Serbia and Montenegro declared war on the Ottoman Empire . He worked as a military attaché there in 1877 , when Russia also declared war on the Ottomans . After six months of work at the Ottoman Border Commission, he was appointed Vice Consul for Anatolia .

In 1882 he was promoted to captain and appointed to the military intelligence staff in Egypt . He was entrusted with the command of the 1st Battalion of the Egyptian Army under the sirdar Sir Evelyn Henry Wood and he spent four years in Egypt. He was transferred to Wadi Halfa in 1886 and fought there for two years against the Mahdi uprising .

Although he was still captain of the Royal Engineers, he received the honorary rank of major in 1883 , lieutenant colonel in 1884 and colonel in 1887. He returned to the diplomatic service in 1888, spent a year in Kurdistan and seven years again as a military attaché in Constantinople . Then he was sent to Crete to train the police force of the Cretan state . Then he took command of the British forces there.

In 1899 he returned to Great Britain, briefly commanding Camp Curragh in Ireland before commanding the 14th Brigade and 3rd Division in South Africa during the Second Boer War . In 1901 he returned to Curragh.

From 1902 to 1904 he was Governor of Queensland .

Sir Herbert retired in 1907 as a Lieutenant General in the British Army . He died at the age of 79 in London on September 24, 1929.

Others

Chermside , a suburb of Brisbane , is named after him.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul D. Wilson: Chermside, Sir Herbert Charles (1850-1929) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).
2. ↑ CV Owen: Chermside, Sir Herbert Charles (1850-1929). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of January 2008 rev. MGM Jones.
3. ↑ Chermsideøya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
4. ↑ History of Chermside ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Our Brisbane ( Brisbane City Council ).