Major General Granville George Algernon Egerton, was a British Army officer who commanded the 52nd Division from March 1914 to September 1915, during the First World War.
10 Facts About Granville Egerton
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Granville Egerton's service continued with the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882 and the Nile Expedition to Sudan in 1898, where he was mentioned in dispatches twice more.
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Granville Egerton is recorded in 1893 as being in service as a captain, having been promoted to that rank in May 1889, in the Seaforth Highlanders and was Scottish District Inspector of Musketry.
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Granville Egerton transferred from the Seaforths to the Green Howards as a lieutenant colonel in May 1903 and commanded the regiment's 1st Battalion.
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Granville Egerton was promoted to colonel in March 1907 and became commandant of the Small Arms School at Hythe, Kent, taking over from Colonel Charles Monro, a Sandhurst classmate.
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Granville Egerton became commander of the 1st Malta Infantry Brigade in September 1909 and relinquished command in December 1912, when he was promoted to major general.
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Granville Egerton was then general officer commanding of the Lowland Division, a Territorial Force formation, in March 1914, just a few months prior to the outbreak of the First World War.
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Granville Egerton led his division in the Gallipoli campaign where it took part in the landing at Cape Helles in June 1915, eight months after the British entry into World War I, and Egerton received a further two mentions in dispatches during the First World War.
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Granville Egerton went on to be director of infantry at the War Office in April 1916 and then retired with the rank of major general in 1919.
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Granville Egerton died at 7 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh, on 3 May 1951 with his funeral taking place at Warriston Crematorium.