Allegiance United Kingdom Service/branch British Army Died 1934 | Name Herbert Belfield Years of service 1876–1914 Rank Lieutenant-general | |
Commands held 4th Infantry Brigade
4th Division Battles/wars Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War
Second Boer War
World War I Education Wellington College, Berkshire Awards Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Service Order Battles and wars Anglo-Ashanti wars, Second Boer War, World War I | ||
Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Eversley Belfield, (1857–1934) was a British Army officer who commanded the 4th Division from 1907 to 1911.
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Military career
Educated at Wellington College, Belfield was commissioned into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1876. He was promoted to captain on 20 May 1885, and to major on 1 February 1893. He took part in the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War in 1895, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 25 March 1896 and to colonel on 18 December 1899. With the outbreak of the Second Boer War (1899–1902), he was appointed Inspector General of the Imperial Yeomanry and Assistant Adjutant General to Lieutenant General Lord Methuen. From January 1902 he held the local rank of brigadier general on the Staff in South Africa. He was mentioned in despatches on 23 June 1902 by Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief in South Africa during the latter part of the war, and returned home in the SS Kinfauns Castle leaving Cape Town in early August 1902, after the war had ended.
Belfield was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General for 1st Army Corps on 11 December 1902, Commander of 4th Infantry Brigade in 1903 and General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 1907 before retiring in 1914. He was also Colonel of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment from 1909 to 1914.
In retirement Belfield became Director of Prisoner of war work, negotiating prisoner exchanges and improvements in the treatment of prisoners throughout the First World War. There is a chair dedicated to his memory at York Minster Stoneyard.
Family
In 1882 he married Emily Mary Binney; he later married Evelyn Mary Taylor; they had two daughters.