- Robert George Broadwood
Lieutenant-General Robert George Broadwood, CB (1862 –
June 21 1917 ) was acavalry officer in theBritish Army , attaining the rank of Lieutenant General.Robert was the third son and child of Thomas Broadwood and Mary Athlea Matthews and a grandson of
John Broadwood the founder of the Broadwood Piano Company. He never married.He joined the 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales) in 1881 and participated in the Dongola Expeditionary Force and Egyptian Campaign in 1896. Between 1893 and 1896 he worked closely with Egyptian forces allied with
Great Britain .As a Lieutenant Colonel he served under Lord Kitchener in the
Battle of Omdurman inSudan during the Nile Campaign of 1898 launched to suppress theSudanese Mahdist revolt . In this capacity he was placed in charge of the contingent of Egyptian cavalry fighting alongside Commonwealth regulars. At the start of the battle Lord Kitchener placed this contingent on the British right flank to protect a small hill there. The Sudanese initially attacked this flank and Broadwood was commended in the official dispatch back to the War Office in England for his adept leadership.As a Brigadier General he commanded Commonwealth forces at the Surprise of Sanna’s Post (aka Korn Spruit) during the
Second Boer War . In this engagementBoer forces achieved complete tactical surprise and Broadwood’s forces suffered over 150 fatalities in the resultingambush .He later served as Commander of Troops in
Natal, South Africa from 1903 to 1904] . He went on to serve in SouthChina in 1906.During
World War I he served as Commanding General of the57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division from20 October 1916 until he died of wounds suffered in battle on21 June 1917 . He is buried in the Anzac Cemetery nearSailly-sur-la-Lys .During his career he was awarded the CB.
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