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Lieutenant General Sir William Thomas Furse KCB KCMG DSO (1865–1953) was a Master-General of the Ordnance. ==Military career== Educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, Furse was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1884.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He was Aide-de-Camp to Lord Roberts from 1891 to 1893.〔 He served in the Second Boer War as a Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General at Army Headquarters.〔 In 1911 he was appointed Commander 12th (Howitzer) Brigade Royal Field Artillery.〔 He served in World War I initially as a General Staff Officer on the British Expeditionary Force and then as General Officer Commanding 9th (Scottish) Division from 1915.〔 He was made Master-General of the Ordnance in 1916; in this capacity he opposed the introduction of the Madsen machine gun, preferring the Lewis gun.〔(Hansard ) 29 May 1918〕 He retired in 1920.〔
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