Kiggell, Sir Launcelot Edward, 1862-1954, Knight, Lieutenant General

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Kiggell, Sir Launcelot Edward, 1862-1954, Knight, Lieutenant General

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1862-1954

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Born in 1862; educated in Ireland and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; entered Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1882; adjutant of 2 Battalion, 1886-1890; Staff College, 1893-1894; Instructor at Royal Military College, 1895-1897; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, South Eastern District, 1897-1899; served in Boer War on staff of Sir Redvers Buller, on HQ Staff at Pretoria, and as Assistant Adjutant General, Harrismith District and Natal, 1899-1902; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Staff College,1904-1907; revised Operations of War by Sir Edward Bruce Hamley (William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1866 revised 1907); General Staff Officer Grade 1 at Army HQ, 1907-1909; Brig Gen in charge of administration, Scottish Command, 1909; Director of Staff Duties, War Office, 1909-1913; Commandant, Staff College, Camberley, 1913-1914; Director of Home Defence, War Office, 1914-1915; Chief of General Staff, British Armies in France, 1915-1918; Lt Gen, 1917; General Officer Commanding and Lt Governor, Guernsey, 1918-1920; retired, 1920; died in 1954.

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Operations of War by Sir Edward Bruce Hamley (William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1866), revised by Kiggell in 1907.

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KCL-AF0387

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