Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Malcolm Harvey Kincaid-Smith (6 July 1874 – 31 December 1938), known as Malcolm Kincaid-Smith was a British

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politician and soldier. Commissioned a

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into the

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on 10 October 1894, he was promoted to

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on 25 September 1895. Kincaid-Smith was seconded for

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service in October 1898. When he returned from secondment he was back as a regular lieutenant in his regiment in January 1900, and served with the provisional Regiment of Lancers in

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during the

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. Following the end of the war in June 1902, he left

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on the SS ''Canada'' and returned to

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in late July. He was promoted

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in 1903, but went on half-pay in 1904 due to ill health, and resigned his commission in 1908. Kincaid-Smith was elected as

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for

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in 1906. In 1909, he resigned his seat and left the Liberal Party to advocate compulsory military training. He stood as an independent, supported by the

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, at the ensuing by-election, but was badly defeated. Upon the outbreak of

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, he was recalled from the reserve and appointed a

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. He was made an assistant

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in 1915, holding the post for a year. He was made a temporary major in the

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, and then a temporary lieutenant-colonel while commanding a school of instruction and a musketry camp in 1917. In 1918, Kincaid-Smith was transferred to command of a reception camp as a temporary major. He stood for the National Party in 1918, but was defeated. He left the reserves due to age in 1929.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kincaid-Smith, Thomas Malcolm Harvey 1874 births 1938 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1906–1910

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