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Smith-Dorrien

SIR HORACE LOCKWOOD, a British general, born in 1858. He was educated at Harrow and entered the Sherwood Foresters (Derby regiment) in 1876. He served in the Zulu War in 1879, the Egyptian War in 1882, the Soudan campaign in 1885, in the Tirah campaign in India in 1897-8, and in the South African War in 1900 was major-general commanding a brigade and a division. He was also active in the World War in 1914-15, after having held the Southern Command in England during the two previous years. In 1914-15 he commanded the 2nd Army Corps and then the 2nd army in the British Expeditionary Force. In 1915-16 he commanded the British forces fighting the Germans in East Africa.

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