Allegiance United Kingdom Service/branch British Army Education Repton School | Name John Burnett-Stuart Years of service 1895–1938 Rank General | |
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Commands held Southern Command
British Troops in Egypt
3rd Division
Madras District in India Battles/wars North-West Frontier
Second Boer War
First World War
Malabar Rebellion Other work Deputy Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire Died 1958, Winchester, United Kingdom Awards Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire, Order of St Michael and St George, Distinguished Service Order Battles and wars Military history of the North-West Frontier, Second Boer War, World War I, Malabar rebellion | ||
General Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart (1875–1958) was a British Army general in the 1920s and 1930s.
Military career
Educated at Repton School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, John Burnett-Stuart was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1895. He saw service on the North-West Frontier of India between 1897 and 1898. He also served in the Second Boer War in South Africa between 1899 and 1902, being awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1900.
He served in the First World War as a General Staff Officer in the British Expeditionary Force rising to become Deputy Adjutant General at General Headquarters for the British Armies in France in 1917.
After the War, in 1919, he was appointed General Officer Commanding Madras District in India where he was involved in the suppression of the Moplah Rebellion at Malabar between 1921 and 1922. The riots that he quashed were inspired by 10,000 guerrillas and led to 2,300 executions.
He returned to the United Kingdom and became Director of Military Operations and Intelligence at the War Office in 1923 and then General Officer Commanding 3rd Division in 1926. In 1927 he directed exercises by an experimental Mechanised force on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. He was appointed General Officer Commanding the British Troops in Egypt in 1931 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Command in 1934: he retired in 1938.
He was also Aide-de-Camp General to King George V from 1935 to 1938 and Colonel Commandant of 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade from 1936 to 1945. He commanded the 1st Aberdeen Battalion of the Home Guard and was Deputy Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire.