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Horace Smith-Dorrien [3] nacque a Haresfoot, nelle vicinanze di Berkhamsted, dodicesimo di sedici figli. [4] Fu educato alla Harrow School e il 26 febbraio 1876 entrò alla prestigiosa Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, venendo poi aggregato come ufficiale subalterno 95th Regiment of Foot. Il 1º novembre 1878, fu inviato in Sudafrica dove ...
Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, né à Berkhamsted (Hertfordshire) le 26 mai 1858 et mort à Chippenham le 12 août 1930, est un général britannique, adjoint du maréchal John French à la tête du BEF (British Expeditionnary Force) pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.
General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien GCB, GCMG, DSO, ADC (26 May 1858 – 12 August 1930) was a British soldier. One of the few British survivors of the Battle of Isandlwana as a young officer, he also distinguished himself in the Second Boer War. He held senior commands in the BEF during the First World War. He commanded the British II Corps at the Battle of Mons, the first major action ...
Horace Smith-Dorrien was born at Haresfoot, a house near Berkhamsted, to Colonel Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien and Mary Ann Drever. He was the twelfth child of sixteen; his eldest brother was Thomas Algernon Smith-Dorrien-Smith, the Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly from 1872 – 1918.
Horace Smith-Dorrien. Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien. Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien GCB, GCMG, DSO, ADC (* 26. Mai 1858 bei Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire; † 12. August 1930 in Chippenham, Wiltshire) war ein britischer General und Armee befehlshaber im Ersten Weltkrieg sowie Gouverneur von Gibraltar .
This is the autobiography of Smith-Dorrien, one of the most notable British military figures of the mid-Victorian and Edwardian ages. The author's first experiences of military life were nearly his last and in this book we are given a vital and chilling account of what it was to be one of the few surviving officers to flee from the Zulu impis at Isandlwhana.
Horace Smith-Dorrien (26 May 1858 – 12 August 1930) was a British Army General during World War I. He commanded II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force at the Battle of Mons and the Second Battle of Ypres, after which he was relieved of command by his old rival John French due to his suggestion that the British withdraw to a better defensive position. Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien was ...
