John Burnett-Stuart

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". General Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart, Template:Postnominals (14 March 1875 – 6 October 1958) was a British Army general in the 1920s and 1930s.[1]

Military career

Educated at Repton School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, John Burnett-Stuart was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) as a second-lieutenant on 6 March 1895.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant on 26 July 1897,[3] and saw service on the North-West Frontier of India between 1897 and 1898.[2]

He also served in the Second Boer War in South Africa between 1899 and 1902, during which he was promoted to captain on 20 February 1901, and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1900.[2] Following the end of the war in June 1902, Burnett-Stuart returned to the United Kingdom on the SS Orotava which arrived at Southampton in early September.[4]

He was promoted to brevet major in July 1911, while serving as a GSO1 with the New Zealand Military Forces and while holding the local rank of lieutenant colonel.[5]

Burnett-Stuart, promoted in August 1914 to temporary lieutenant colonel,[6] served in the First World War as a General Staff Officer in the British Expeditionary Force, rising to become Deputy Adjutant General at General Headquarters for the British Armies in France in 1917.[2] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in January 1917.[7]

After the war, in June 1919, he was promoted to substantive major general.[8] and was appointed General Officer Commanding Madras District[9] in India where he was involved in the suppression of the Moplah Rebellion at Malabar between 1921 and 1922.[2] The riots that he quashed were inspired by 10,000 guerrillas and led to 2,300 executions.[10]

Burnett-Stuart returned to the United Kingdom and became Director of Military Operations and Intelligence at the War Office in 1923 and then General Officer Commanding 3rd Division, taking over from Lieutenant General Sir William Heneker in July 1926.[2][11] In 1927 he directed exercises by an experimental Mechanised force on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.[2] He relinquished this position in May 1930[12] and was appointed General Officer Commanding the British Troops in Egypt in June 1931[13] and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Command in 1934:[14] he retired in 1938.[2]

Burnett-Stuart was also Aide-de-camp general to King George V from 1935 to 1938 and colonel commandant of the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade from 1936 to 1945.[2] He commanded the 1st Aberdeen Battalion of the Home Guard[15] and was Deputy Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire.[2]

Further reading

  • To Change an Army: General Sir John Burnett-Stuart and British Armoured Doctrine, 1927–38 By Harold R Winton, Elsevier, 1988, Template:ISBN

References

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  3. ↑ Hart's Army list, 1903
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  10. ↑ University College, Dublin
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  15. ↑ MacKenzie, S.P. (1995), The Home Guard: A Military and Political History. Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN (p. 183)

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Military offices
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