Herbert Holman

Sir Herbert Campbell Holman KCB , CMG , DSO ( May 3, 1869 , † 1949 ) was a British officer, most recently a lieutenant general .

Life

After training as an officer at the Royal Military College Sandhurst , Holman joined the Devonshire Regiment in 1889. He took part in the Wuntho expedition (1892) in Burma and then joined the 16th Bengal Lancers of the British Indian Army . He qualified as a translator for Russian and French and attended Staff College Camberley . In the Boxer Rebellion he served as a staff officer, then in the intelligence department in London. In 1905 he was a military attaché in the Russian Army during the fighting in the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria . During the First World War he served in the Intelligence Section of the Indian Corps on the Western Front in 1914 , and later he became Quartermaster of the XI Corps and the Fourth Army . From May 22, 1919 to April 15, 1920 he was chief of the British Military Mission in southern Russia and was knighted for his services there. He then came to India and was employed there in various positions until 1928.

literature

• John McKendrick Hughes: The Unwanted: Great War Letters from the Field. University of Alberta, 2005, p. 327 f.

Web links

• Portrait on the pages of the National Portrait Gallery