Background
Asser was born on 31 August 1867, the son of S. B. V. Asser of Windlesham, Surrey.
commandant General officer army officer
Asser was born on 31 August 1867, the son of S. B. V. Asser of Windlesham, Surrey.
He entered the Army in 1887 and was appointed aide-de-camp to the General Officer Commanding, Egypt in 1892. Foreign his service in the Nile expedition of 1898 he was granted the brevet rank of major and awarded the medal with two clasps, and for the Nile expedition of 1899 a further clasp. He was promoted to the substantive rank of major in 1907 and to lieutenant-colonel the same year.
He was also an Egyptian pasha and a member for some years of the Sudan Government Council.
Asser retired from the Army in July 1914 but returned to service on the outbreak of war that year. He served as a base commandant, as General Officer Commanding Lincolnshire of Communication area, and as G.O.C. of the British Troops in France and Flanders in 1919.
Asser was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda from 1922 to 1927 and was promoted to full general in 1926. He was an aide-de-camp general to the King from 1929 to 1930, the year in which he was placed on retired pay.
Asser lived at The Old Vicarage, Hambledon, Hampshire.
In Who"s Who he listed his recreations as shooting, fishing and golf. He died on 4 February 1949.
He was a member of the Army and Navy Club and an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at William and Mary College, Virginia.