Lieutenant-General Sir Edmond Roche Elles (9 June 18486 January 1934) was a

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officer who served in

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and

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during the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Military career

Elles entered the

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in 1867 and was promoted to

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in 1891. He was Assistant Quartermaster-General at Headquarters in India (intelligence branch) when he was in November 1893 appointed Deputy Quartermaster-General Bengal. In 1900 he was promoted

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. He served in Egypt and India, including the Indian Frontier, and was appointed a district commander in

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on 18 October 1895. Following the outbreak of the

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in late 1899, Sir William Nicholson (then Adjutant-General in India) was posted to South Africa, and Elles was appointed acting Adjutant-General on 4 January 1900.'ELLES, Lt-Gen Sir Edmond (Roche)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 In December 1900 he was appointed to command a First class district in

(possibly Secunderabad district), but was replaced four months later, in April 1901, after he had been appointed an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India in March 1901. In January 1903, he was made a Knights Commander of India (KCIE).Great Britain. India Office He was promoted Lieutenant-general 1907, and retired from the army in 1908. In 1908, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Surrey.

Family

His daughter was

Patricia Wentworth Dora Amy Turnbull (formerly Dillon, née Elles; 15 October 1877 – 28 January 1961), known by pen name Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer. Early life and education She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the B ...

, a crime writer.

References

External links

thePeerage.com - Lt Gen Sir Edmond Roche Elles
{{DEFAULTSORT:Elles, Edmond Roche British Army lieutenant generals Knights Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath 1848 births 1934 deaths British military personnel of the First Mohmand Campaign Royal Artillery officers British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich Deputy Lieutenants of Surrey