| General Sir Ian
Standish Monteith Hamilton (January 16, 1853 - October 12, 1947) was
a general in the British Army and is most notably known for
commanding the ill-fated Mediterranean
Expeditionary Force during the Battle of Gallipoli.
Hamilton's military career began
in 1873 and he served in India and Africa. He was Chief of Staff to
Lord Kitchener during the Boer War and was knighted in 1902.
Kitchener appointed Hamilton to
command the Allied expedition to gain control of the Dardanelles
straits from Turkey and capture Constantinople. |
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- Biography
- Born in 1853
- Educated at Cheam, Wellington
College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst
- Commissioned into 12th (East
Suffolk) Foot, 1872
- Served in Ireland, 1872-1873
- Transferred to 92nd (Gordon
Highlanders) Regt, 1873
- Regimental service in India,
Afghanistan and South Africa, 1873-1881, including active service
in Second Afghan War, 1878-1880, and First Boer War, 1881
(severely wounded, Battle of Majuba Hill, 1881)
- Aide-de-camp to Gen Sir Frederick
Sleigh Roberts, 1st Bt, as Commander-in-Chief Madras, 1882-1884,
and Commander-in-Chief East Indies, 1886-1890 (including Burma
Expedition, 1886-1887)
- Served with 1 Bn Gordon
Highlanders during First Sudan Expedition, 1884-1885
- Assistant Adjutant General for
Musketry in Bengal, India, 1890-1893
- Military Secretary to Gen Sir
George Stuart White, Commander-in-Chief East Indies, 1893-1895
- Assistant Adjutant General and
Assistant Quarter Master General, Chitral Relief Force, North West
Frontier, 1895
- Deputy Quarter Master General in
India, 1895-1898
- Officer commanding 1 Bde and 3
Bde, Tirah Expeditionary Force, North West Frontier, 1897-1898
- Commandant, School of Musketry,
Hythe, Kent, 1898-1899
- Assistant Adjutant General and
Chief of Staff, Natal Field Force, 1899, and Maj Gen commanding 7
Bde, Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1900
- Lt Gen, commanding Mounted
Infantry Div, Second Boer War, South Africa, 1900-1901
- Military Secretary, War Office,
1901
- Chief of Staff to Gen Horatio
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall,
Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, Second Boer War, 1901-1902
- Military Secretary, War Office,
1902-1903
- Quarter Master General to the
Forces, 1903-1904
- Military representative of India
attached to 1 Japanese Army, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
- General Officer Commanding
Southern Command, 1905-1909
- Adjutant General to the Forces,
1909-1910
- General Officer Commanding
Mediterranean Command, and Inspector General of Overseas Forces,
1910-1914
- Commander-in-Chief Central Force,
Home Defence, 1914-1915, World War I
- General Officer Commanding
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 1915, World War I
- Lieutenant of the Tower of
London, 1918-1920
- Retired from the Army, 1920
- Colonel of the Queen's Own
Cameron Highlanders, 1904-1914
- Colonel of the Gordon
Highlanders, 1914-1939
- Lord Rector of Edinburgh
University, 1933-1936
- President, 1922-1935, and Patron,
1935-1947, of the Metropolitan Area British Legion
- President of the British Legion
in Scotland, 1935-1947
- President of the South African
War Veterans' Association, 1932-1947
- Died 1947
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