Brigadier General Sir Dalrymple Arbuthnot, 5th Baronet, (1 April 1867 – 31 March 1941) was a British

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and Army officer.

Early life

The second son of Sir William Arbuthnot, 3rd Baronet and Alice Margaret Thompson, and younger brother of the Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet, he was educated at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich.

Military career

Arbuthnot was commissioned in the

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on 17 February 1886. He served in the Chitral Expedition of 1895 in the North-West Frontier Province, where he was awarded a medal with clasp, and the following year was promoted to

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on 30 September 1896. He later served in the

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in South Africa from 1899 to 1902, being

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. He was promoted to

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on 28 October 1901, and in January the following year was appointed an assistant staff officer for colonial forces in South Africa. After the end of the war in June 1902, Arbuthnot stayed in South Africa for several months, returning home on the SS ''Scot'' in November. By the time the

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broke out, Arbuthnot had risen to lieutenant colonel and was Officer Commanding of the

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, based at

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. On mobilisation, the brigade formed part of the artillery of the 2nd Division in the original British Expeditionary Force. Arbuthnot commanded the Brigade until May 1915, when he became Commander Royal Artillery of the newly formed 28th Division. Although the division spent only ten months on the Western Front before re-deploying to

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, it took part in several engagements at

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and in the

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. Arbuthnot spent much of the rest of the war away from the Western Front. He was Brigadier General, Royal Artillery of the

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at Salonika from January to July 1916, Commander Royal Artillery of the 23rd Division in France and Italy from January 1917 to July 1918, and Brigadier General, Royal Artillery of the XXIII Corps, Home Forces, from July 1918 to the

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. During the war, he was mentioned in despatches eight times, awarded the

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, appointed a

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in 1915, and made brevet colonel in 1916. He was also a member of the Italian

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,Burke's Peerage 107th ed. and was made an honorary brigadier general in 1920. In the first years of the

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, Arbuthnot served with the

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Family

On 15 January 1918, he married Alice Maud Arbuthnot, daughter of Hugh Lyttleton Arbuthnot. They had two children: *Major Sir Robert Dalrymple Arbuthnot, 6th Baronet (1919–1944) *Sir Hugh FitzGerald Arbuthnot, 7th Baronet (1922–1983) Arbuthnot succeeded to the baronetcy on 31 May 1916, after his brother was killed in the

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Notes

References

* *Burke's Peerage & Baronetage 1975 107th ed. *

External links

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