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Name: HAWTHORN, George Montague Philip CBE, DSO (Brig.-General)
Birth Date: 16 Dec 1873 Parkside, Adelaide, S. Australia
Death Date: 5 Mar 1945 Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, buried in Challoch, Scotland
First Date: 1919
Profession: Inspector-General of the KAR 1919-23
Book Reference: Moyse, Debrett, DSO
War Service: Liverpool Regt.
School: Harrow
General Information:
Debrett - entered The King's (Liverpool) Regt. 1894, became Col. 1919, and retired with rank of Hon. Brig-Gen. 1923; Ashanti 1900 (medal), Somaliland 1902-4 (medal with 2 clasps), E. Africa and Nyasaland 1914-19, as Lieut.-Col. Comdg. a Batn., Col. Comdg. a Column The KAR, and subsequently as Brig.-Gen. Comdg. Nyasa-Rhodesian Field Force (despatches, DSO, Croix de Guerre, Brevets Lieut.-Col. and Col.); was Inspector-Gen. King's African Rifles 1919-23 (Col. on the Staff)