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General Sir Henry Crichton Sclater (5 November 1855 – 26 September 1923) was a British Army General during World War I. ==Military career== Henry Sclater, the third son of James Henry Sclater and Louisa Catherine Fowler, was born on 5 November 1855. After being educated at Cheltenham, he went to the Royal Military Academy and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1875.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives ), kcl.ac.uk; accessed 28 March 2014.〕 Sclater was a General Staff Officer and later Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Headquarters for the Nile expedition between 1884 and 1885.〔 He was promoted to Major on 15 June 1885, served in the Egyptian Frontier Field Force from 1885 to 1886 and was Deputy Assistant Adjutant General in Cairo from 1885-90. Following his return to the United Kingdom, he was Brigade major of Royal Artillery, until in late 1899 he was re-assigned following the outbreak of the Second Boer War. He served as Assistant Adjutant General, Royal Artillery and Colonel on the General Staff of the Royal Artillery in South Africa (mentioned in despatches dated 31 March 1900). He was Director of Artillery at the War Office from 1903-04 when he became Quartermaster General for India. In 1908 he was appointed Commander of Quetta Division in India.〔 He served in World War I as Adjutant-General to the Forces and a Member of Army Council from 1914 to 1916: in this capacity he was responsible for the expansion of the Army in 1914.〔(''Kitchener's army: the raising of the new armies, 1914-16'' ) by Peter Simkins, p. 37, Manchester University Press, 1988; ISBN 978-0-7190-2637-9〕 He served as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Southern Command from 1916-19, and retired in 1922.〔 Sclater died on 26 September 1923, and was survived by his wife, Dame Edith Sclater.〔〔(Henry Crichton Sclater ) The Peerage.com〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Sclater」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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