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1878-80 and was transferred to the Corps of Guides. He fought at
Suakin in 1885 before returning to the North West Frontier. He
was in the Burma War of 1886-7 and in Chitral in 1895. He
managed to attach himself to the United States army in the Philip­
pines in 1898. In the Boer War he commanded a force of British
Imperial Yeomanry which became known as ‘Younghusband’s
Horse’, and was active in the pursuit of General Smuts. He
returned to the North West Frontier and was knighted in 1913. At
the outbreak of war, he took a Brigade to Egypt and commanded it
when the Turks tried to cross the Suez Canal in February 1915. In
July 1915 he was sent to retrieve the situation in Aden with the
information that ‘the Turks are on the golf-course’. He organised
the counter-attack which regained Sheikh Othman and drove the
enemy back to Lahej. He then returned to his troops in Egypt but
was soon commanding a Division in Mesopotamia in the attempt to
relieve Townshend at Kut. After some months he was invalided out
of the Army, being appointed Keeper of the Crown Jewels. He died
in September 1944. His Forty Years a Soldier (London, 1923) has a
few pages on his experiences in Aden. He also wrote books on the
Tower of London, the Crown Jewels, Polo in India, Indian
Frontier Warfare and Eighteen hundred miles on a Burmese Tet.
1915 (September) to 1916 (June)
PRICE, Brigadier-General Charles Henry Uvedale
Born in 1862, he was the son of a General. He joined the Welsh
Regiment in 1881, transferring to the Indian Staff Corps in 1883.
He was severely wounded in the Burma War of 1886-7. He was
awarded the D.S.O. for service in Uganda in 1898-9 when he
commanded a flying column of seventy-five Afridi tribesmen in
operations against Sudanese mutineers. He was Deputy Assistant
Adjutant-General in India in 1900 and then served for four years in
Aden. He was commanding a Brigade when he took over in Aden.
His health broke down after less than a year and he ended the war
as President of the Area Quartering Committee in Cardiff. He
retired in 1920 and died in February 1942.
1916 (June) to 1920
STEWART, Major-General Sir James Marshall
He was born in 1861 and educated at Clifton, Malvern and
Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the Gloucestershire Regiment
in 1881 and was soon in action on the North West Frontier. He
served in the Burma War of 1886-7 and then performed political
duties on the North West Frontier. He carried out special missions
in Gilgit and the Pamirs in 1891 and then commanded the Khyber
Rifles in the second Hazara campaign of 1891. This was followed