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George Forestier-Walker

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in 1902, Assistant Quartermaster General for Intelligence for the Somaliland Field Force in 1903 and saw action again during the East Africa Campaign before becoming Assistant Quartermaster General at
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He retired from the army in 1920 and became Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery in 1931.
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Forestier-Walker, pictured here when he was a colonel, together with Lieutenant-General
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from September 1916, also in the Home Forces. In December 1916 he became GOC
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Cortlandt Simon Michael Forestier Walker (20 November 1902 – 29 August 1903)
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formation, in April 1915 and, after leaving with his division first the
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in 1884 and served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General during the
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Helen Mary Cecilia Forestier-Walker (17 April 1895 – 28 July 1987)
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Lilian Diana Forestier Walker (12 January 1894 – 5 August 1922)
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In 1892, he married Lady Mary Maud Diana Liddell, daughter of
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Quarterly Army List for the quarter ending 30th June 1919
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in the Home Forces from February 1916 and to command the
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George Forestier Walker (born and died 31 May 1898)
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He became Chief Staff Officer of the 646: 354:Henry Liddell, 2nd Earl of Ravensworth 250:, sometime before the First World War. 193:Sir George Townshend Forestier-Walker 669:British Army generals of World War I 601:GOC 63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division 488: 486: 484: 482: 480: 478: 422: 402: 13: 546:The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929 233: 14: 720: 475: 471:. 19 December 1884. p. 5872. 34:George Townshend Forestier Walker 347: 315:63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division 289:, which went to France with the 228:Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 108: 88: 16:British Army officer (1866–1939) 679:People educated at Rugby School 626:GOC 65th (2nd Lowland) Division 529:. 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Index

Camberley
Surrey
Child Okeford
Dorsetshire
United Kingdom
British Army
Major-General
Royal Artillery
21st Division
27th Division
Second Boer War
World War I
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Major-General
KCB
British Army
World War I
Camberley
Sir George Townshend Walker, 1st Baronet
Rugby School
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

Horace Smith-Dorrien
Paul Aloysius Kenna
Royal Artillery
Second Boer War
Somaliland Field Force
Southern Command
brigadier-general
Irish Command

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