Background
HUTTON, Edward Thomas Henry was born on December 6, 1848 in Torquay. Son of Edward Thomas Hutton, Beverley, Yorkshire.
HUTTON, Edward Thomas Henry was born on December 6, 1848 in Torquay. Son of Edward Thomas Hutton, Beverley, Yorkshire.
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Joined (30th Rifles 1807. Colonel, 1892; Major-General (temporary), N. S. Wales, 1893-1890. Canada, 1898-1900; South Africa, 1900.
Lieutenant-General 1907. Served Zulu War, 1879. Battle of Gingihlovo (desp., medal).
Boer War, with Mounted Infantry, 1881. Egyptian War, 1882.
Military Secy., and in command of Mounted Infantry, including the reconnaissance in force, 5 August, and other operations at Alexandria. Battle of Tel - el - Kebir (horse killed, despatches, Brevet - Major, medal and star).
Nile Expedition, 1884-1885, in command of Mounted Infantry. Also on the staff.
Raised and commanded Mounted Infantry at Aidershot, 1888-1892. Aide-de-camp to the Sovereign, 1892- 1901.
Commanded the Military Forces, N. S. Wales, 1893-1890. President Military Conferences in Australia, 1890. Assistant Adjutant-General, Ireland, 1890-1898.
General in Command of the Dominion Militia, 1898-1900. Commanded the Mounted Troops, other than Cavalry, on the flank of Lord Roberts’s advance, and subsesequontly an independent column in the operations in the Eastern Transvaal (despatches, medal and 5 clasps). Commanded and organised the Military Forces of Australia, 1901-1904.
General of Administration Eastern Command and commanding 3rd Division, 1905-1900. Retired; Colonel Commandant King’s Royal Rifles; Honourable Colonel 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment (New South Wales Mounted Rifles); 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment (Northern Rivers Lancers), and Gth Reserve Battalion King’s Royal Rifles; 2nd Class Japanese Order of the Rising Sun.
Clubs: United Service, Travellers’.
Cricket, shooting, hunting.
Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, cartulary-register 1900; Companion of the Bath 1894. Lieutenant-General; Sir.