Sir Herbert Raitt
Raitt in 1920
Born(1858-08-00)August 1858
Kensington,[1] London, England
Died8 November 1935(1935-11-08) (aged 77)
Folkestone, Kent, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
RankMajor-general
Commands held
Battles/wars
Awards

Major General Sir Herbert Aveling Raitt, KCIE, CB (August 1858 – 8 November 1935) was a senior British Army officer.

Military career

Raitt was commissioned into the 80th Regiment of Foot (later South Staffordshire Regiment) on 27 March 1878,[2] and saw action in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879,[3] following which he was promoted to lieutenant on 9 July 1897. He was promoted to captain on 26 January 1884, and served in the Bechuanaland Expedition under Sir Charles Warren in 1885, commanding a troop of the 3rd Mounted Rifles (Diamond Fields Horse). Promotion to major on 12 February 1896.[4]

Raitt was appointed 2nd in command of the 1st Battalion the South Staffordshire Regiment on 10 March 1900, and left Southampton later the same month on the SS Briton to take command of the battalion for service in South Africa during the Second Boer War.[5][3] He became General Officer Commanding South Midland Division in April 1908,[6] before being sent out to India as commander of the Mandalay Brigade in May 1913.[3] He went on to be General Officer Commanding the Burma Division in October 1914 and led the response to the Kachin Rising of January and February 1915 before retiring in November 1918.[3] In 1919, he was appointed KCIE. He dided in Folkestone, Kent on 8 November 1935.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  2. ↑ "Herbert Aveling Raitt". National Archives. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Major-General Sir Herbert Raitt". DNW. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  4. ↑ Hart′s Army list, 1901
  5. ↑ "The War - Embarcation of Troops". The Times. No. 36099. London. 26 March 1900. p. 7.
  6. ↑ "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  7. ↑ "Major-General Herbert Aveling Raitt, K.C.I.E., C.B". www.1879zuluwar.com. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
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