11-511: General Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane , GCMG , KCB , DSO (17 November 1862 – 19 April 1950) was a Scottish soldier who rose to high rank in the British Army . Born to physician Daniel Rutherford Haldane and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth née Lowthorpe, James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane came from a family of distinguished Scottish aristocrats based in Gleneagles . He
22-660: A staff captain in the Intelligence Section at the War Office on 27 June 1901, promoted to major on 23 July 1902, and received the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel on the following day. He was military attaché with the Imperial Japanese Army from July 1904 to September 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War , and accompanied Japanese forces into Manchuria . Following promotion to brevet colonel , Haldane
33-534: Is now only awarded as an honorary rank. The rank of general has a NATO-code of OF-9 , and is a four-star rank . It is equivalent to a full admiral in the Royal Navy or an air chief marshal in the Royal Air Force . Officers holding the ranks of lieutenant-general and major-general may be generically considered to be generals. A general's insignia is a crossed sword and baton. This appeared on its own for
44-678: The British Expeditionary Force (BEF), which he assumed command of in November. After commanding the division for the next almost two years, he was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant-general in August 1916 and given command of 6th Army Corps in France, a post he retained for the remainder of the war. After the war, Haldane, his rank of lieutenant-general being made permanent in January 1919,
55-514: The lower general officer ranks) is the highest rank achievable by serving officers of the British Army . The rank can also be held by Royal Marines officers in tri-service posts, for example, Generals Sir Gordon Messenger and Gwyn Jenkins , former and current Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff . It ranks above lieutenant-general and, in the Army, is subordinate to the rank of field marshal , which
66-521: The now obsolete rank of brigadier-general . A major-general has a pip over this emblem; a lieutenant-general a crown instead of a pip; and a full general both a pip and a crown. The insignia for the highest rank, that of Field Marshal , consists of crossed batons within a wreath and surmounted by a crown. Brookwood Cemetery Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
77-774: The rank of captain . Between 1894 and 1895, Haldane was part of the Waziristan Field Force and participated in the Chitral Expedition . He was dispatched to quell the Afridis rebellion in the Tirah campaign for the next two years (1897–1898), was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) on 20 May 1898, and became aide-de-camp to General Sir William Lockhart , Commander-in-Chief in India , later
88-571: The same year. Haldane fought in the Second Boer War in South Africa , where he was taken a war prisoner. While imprisoned in Pretoria , he planned the escape which made Winston Churchill famous. Haldane failed to escape at the same time and later complained of Churchill's lack of regard for those who should have escaped with him. However, Haldane later managed his own escape. Haldane was appointed
99-626: Was appointed Companion of the Bath on 16 March 1906 and granted the rank of colonel on 29 October 1906. From 1906 to 1909, he served as assistant director of military intelligence . On 1 October 1909, Haldane was promoted to temporary brigadier-general and in 1910 become commander of 10th Infantry Brigade . Haldane fought in World War I initially, after being promoted to major general in October 1914, as general officer commanding (GOC) 3rd Division , then part of
110-628: Was appointed GOC Mesopotamia in 1920 and remained in that post until 1922. After being promoted to full general in March, he retired later in the year. Haldane died in his 88th year on 19 April 1950 at his home in London, his body was buried at Brookwood Cemetery , in Surrey . Haldane's published writings encompass 6 works in 8 publications in 1 language and 311 library holdings. General (United Kingdom) General (or full general to distinguish it from
121-639: Was cousin to Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane , Secretary of State for War 1905–1912, instigator of the Haldane Reforms . In September 1882, after attending the Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst , Haldane was commissioned as a British officer of the Gordon Highlanders . On 18 February 1886, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant , and on 8 April 1892 to
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