1. Herman Landon commanded a battalion during the Second Boer War, and was promoted in the interwar period to take command of a brigade in the British Expeditionary Force following the outbreak of the First World War.
15 Facts About Herman Landon
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Herman Landon commanded the brigade during the early fighting on the Western Front, and succeeded to the command of the 1st Infantry Division when his commanding general was killed at the First Battle of Ypres; he later commanded four more New Army divisions during the war.
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Herman Landon was born on 23 August 1859, the son of Mary Maria nee Edgar and James Landon ; he had one elder sister, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and an older stepsister, Geraldine Amelia Leigh.
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James Landon was an Indian cotton merchant; though predominantly involved in growing rather than processing, he had been responsible for setting up one of the first successful cotton mills in India, at Bharuch in Gujarat, in 1854.
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Herman Landon died in March 1879, leaving a substantial estate of eight to nine thousand pounds.
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Herman Landon was educated at Harrow from 1874 to 1876, leaving just before his seventeenth birthday.
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Herman Landon later attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, passing out in January 1879 in the same class as Thomas Snow, later a lieutenant general, and taking a commission in the 6th Regiment of Foot of the British Army.
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Herman Landon returned to Africa in 1900, in the Boer War, where he took temporary command of his battalion, the 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment, from March to November.
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Herman Landon then was sent to India, where he joined the 1st Battalion of the Royal Warwickshires, and in 1902 was promoted to substantive lieutenant colonel, and given command of the battalion.
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Herman Landon remained in command until 1906, receiving a brevet promotion to colonel in July 1904.
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Herman Landon returned to an active command in 1910, when he was made a brigadier general and given command of the 3rd Brigade.
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Herman Landon was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1911 Coronation Honours.
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Herman Landon received the French Croix de Guerre, and was appointed a Commander of the Belgian Order of Leopold.
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Herman Landon married Christian Ethel Sharp in 1903, and they had one daughter, Mary Christian Herman Landon.
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Herman Landon died in 1948 at the family home in Scottow, Norfolk.