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Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode, 7th Baronet of Oakley, GCB, OM, GCSI, KCMG, DSO, GCStJ (21 September 1869 – 6 July 1950), was a senior British Army officer. He saw action during the Second Boer War, during which he was present at the Siege of Ladysmith in December 1899.
Sir Philip Chetwode. Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode (1869-1950) served as a cavalry commander during World War One on both Western and (more effectively) Palestine Fronts. Sponsored Links. Chetwode's early service was in Burma and he subsequently saw action during the South African War (1899-1902).
Chetwode was appointed on 7 December 1916 to command the Column which was composed of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, the 52nd (Lowland) Division, the Anzac Mounted Division and the Imperial Camel Brigade 's eighteen companies, six of which were yeomen. [2] .
General Philip Walhouse Chetwode GCB, KCMG, DSO. Unit: Commanding London Mounted Brigade, attached (as GOC) to 2nd Cavalry Division and then to Desert Mounted Corps and XX Corps. Death: 06 July 1950.
La sede de las "Fuerza del Este" fue sustituida por dos cuarteles generales de dos cuerpo de infantería; el Cuerpo XX, al mando del general Philip Walhouse Chetwode, y el Cuerpo XXI al mando del teniente general Edward Bulfin.
Baron Chetwode, of Chetwode in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1945 for the noted military commander Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode, 7th Baronet. As of 2014 the titles are held by his grandson, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1950.
In late 1917, the most successful cavalry charge of World War I took place not on the muddy killing fields of the Western Front, but at the foot of the Judean Hills in southern Palestine.
