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Lieutenant-General

Sir Edwin Alderson

KCB
Lieutenant General Alderson, c. 1910
Born(1859-04-08)8 April 1859
Capel St Mary, Suffolk, England
Died14 December 1927(1927-12-14) (aged 68)
Lowestoft, Suffolk, England
Service/branchEdwin Alderson British Army
Years of service1878–1920
RankLieutenant General
UnitQueen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Commands heldCanadian Corps
1st Canadian Division
Battles/warsFirst Boer War
Anglo-Egyptian War
  • Battle of Tel-el-Kebir

Mahdist War
Second Matabele War
Second Boer War

  • Battle of Paardeberg
  • Siege of Kimberley
  • Battle of Driefontein
  • Battle of Witpoort

First World War

  • battle of Neuve Chapelle
  • Second battle of Ypres
  • battle of Festubert
  • Second Battle of Givenchy
  • Battle of St-Eloi
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Mentioned in Despatches
Legion of Honour (France)

Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson, KCB (8 April 1859 – 14 December 1927) was a senior British Army officer who served in several campaigns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1915 to 1916 during the First World War he commanded the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, during which time it saw heavy fighting.

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