Steuart Hare

Sir Steuart Hare
BornSeptember 1867
Alverstoke, Hampshire, England[1]
DiedOctober 1952 (aged 84–85)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
Years of service1886−1923
RankMajor-General
UnitKing's Royal Rifle Corps
Commands156th (Scottish Rifles) Brigade
27th Division
54th (East Anglian) Division
Battles / warsFirst World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Companion of the Order of the Bath

Major-General Sir Steuart Welwood Hare, KCMG, CB (September 1867 – October 1952) was a British Army officer.[2]

Military career

Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Hare was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 5 May 1886.[3] He took part in the Hazara Expedition of 1888, the Miranzai Expedition of 1891, the Isazai Expedition of 1892 and the Chitral Expedition of 1895.[4] He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in August 1908[5] and, after being promoted to colonel in March 1912,[6] he became commander of the Scottish Rifles Brigade in August 1912.[7]

Hare, who in August 1914 was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general,[8] commanded the 86th Infantry Brigade during the landing at Cape Helles and was subsequently wounded in the leg during the Gallipoli campaign.[4] He was briefly acting commander of the 27th Division on the Macedonian front from December 1915.[9] He also commanded the 82nd Infantry Brigade from then until April 1916, managing to retain his temporary brigadier's rank while doing so.[10]

After that he was promoted again, this time to the temporary rank of major general,[11] and became general officer commanding (GOC) 54th (East Anglian) Division in April 1916 and commanded the division in Egypt and then in the First, Second and Third Battles of Gaza in 1917 and the Battle of Megiddo in September 1918 in Palestine.[9] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in January 1917.[12] His rank of major general became substantive in January 1917.[13]

The division was demobilised in September 1919,[14] but he continued to command it in its newly reconstituted form as a Territorial Army (TA) formation[15] until he retired from the army in July 1923.[7][16]

He lived at Blairlogie Castle, Blairlogie, Stirlingshire.[17]

Works

  • Hare, Sir Steuart (1929). Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, Volume 4, The KRRC 1872-1913. Naval and Military Press.
  • Hare, Sir Steuart (1929). Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, Volume 5, The Great War. Naval and Military Press.

References

  1. ^ "Life story: Steuart Welwood Hare". Lives of the First World War.
  2. ^ Davies 1997, p. 147.
  3. ^ "No. 25583". The London Gazette. 4 May 1886. p. 2128.
  4. ^ a b Davies, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (1995). Bloody Red Tabs: General Officer Casualties of the Great War 1914–1918. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-0850524635.
  5. ^ "No. 28184". The London Gazette. 9 October 1908. p. 7311.
  6. ^ "No. 28638". The London Gazette. 23 August 1912. p. 6287.
  7. ^ a b "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  8. ^ "No. 28875". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 August 1914. p. 6581.
  9. ^ a b "Private papers of Major-General Sir Steuart Hare KCMG". Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  10. ^ "No. 29577". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 May 1916. p. 4664.
  11. ^ "No. 29607". The London Gazette. 2 June 1916. p. 5469.
  12. ^ "No. 29886". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1916. p. 2.
  13. ^ "No. 30450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1917. p. 8.
  14. ^ Becke, Major A. F. (1936). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 2A. The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42–56) (2007 Naval & Military Press reprint ed.). London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 131. ISBN 1-871167-12-4.
  15. ^ "No. 31524". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 August 1919. p. 10830.
  16. ^ "No. 32848". The London Gazette. 27 July 1923. p. 5135.
  17. ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

Bibliography

  • Davies, Frank (1997). Bloody Red Tabs: General Officer Casualties of the Great War 1914–1918. London: Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 978-0-85052-463-5.
Military offices
Preceded by GOC 54th (East Anglian) Division
1916–1923 		Succeeded by