Lieutenant General Sir Edward Locke Elliot, (28 January 1850 – 12 December 1938) was a

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General during the

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and in

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Biography

Elliot was the son of Colonel Edward King Elliot. He was educated at

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

and

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, before being commissioned into the

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in January 1868. He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879, and in

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, 1885–1889, being

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(dated 2 September 1887) and awarded the

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(DSO). Elliott participated in the

Dongola Expedition The Mahdist War ( ar, الثورة المهدية, ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided On ...

of 1896, when he was again mentioned in despatches and after it was appointed a Companion of the

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. Two years later, in 1898, he was promoted to

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and appointed Inspector-General of Cavalry in

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. He served in

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for 15 months from 1901 to 1902, after the

had changed from conventional warfare to a

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. During the latter part of the war he commanded troops in the east of the

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, and following the announcement of peace on 31 May 1902, he supervised the surrender of arms in that area. For his services in the war he was twice mentioned in despatches (dated 17 June and 23 June), and was created a KCB. He was promoted to Major-General on 1 April 1902. Following the end of the second Boer war, Elliot returned home to the United Kingdom, but in late 1902 was back in India to take up his former employment as Inspector General of Cavalry. From 1905 to 1910, he commanded the 8th (Lucknow) Division in India. He retired from the army in 1911, having been promoted to the rank of

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in 1906. During the

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he served in France as Military Adviser, Indian Army. He was appointed KCIE in 1919 and also received the Legion d'Honneur. He died at The Coppice in

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on 12 December 1938.''The Times'' (Saturday, 17 December 1938), p. 16.

Family

Elliot married, in 1893, Eva Sybil Smith, eldest daughter of Colonel Percy Smith, by whom he had a daughter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Elliot, Edward Locke 1850 births 1938 deaths People educated at Harrow School Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst British Army lieutenant generals Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath British Army personnel of the Second Boer War British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War Indian Army generals of World War I