Horne
SIR HENRY SINCLAIR, a British military officer; born in 1861; he received his general education at Harrow, then prepared for a military career at Woolwich. On graduating, in 1880, he received a commission in the Royal Artillery. He served with distinction in the South African War, from 1899 to 1902. At the outbreak of hostilities in HORNED SCREAMER the World War, in 1914, he was given command of the artillery of the First Corps of the British Army in France.
During 1915 he was in command of the Second Division, but in the latter part of that year he was sent to take command of the British forces assigned to the defense of the Suez Canal, where he distinguished himself by his decisive defeat of the Turkish Army sent against him. Returning home, he was given command of the First Army of the British forces in France. It was he who invented the "creeping barrage," during the operations on the Western Front, in 1916. a