- Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald
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The Earl of Dundonald
The 12th Earl of DundonaldBorn 29 October 1852 Died 12 April 1935 (aged 82) Allegiance Canada Service/branch Canadian Militia Rank Lieutenant-General Commands held General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada Battles/wars Mahdist War
Second Boer War
World War IAwards Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St GeorgeLieutenant-General Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald KCB, KCVO (29 October 1852 – 12 April 1935) was a Scottish representative peer and a British Army general.
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Military career
Cochrane was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1870.[1] He served in the Nile Expedition[1] the Desert March and the Relief of Khartoum in 1885.[2] He was appointed Commanding Officer of 2nd Life Guards in 1895.[1]
He served in the Second Boer War and in 1899 he was appointed Commander of the Mounted Brigade, part of the South Natal Field Force.[1] He took part in the Relief of Ladysmith in February 1900.[1]
He was appointed General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada in 1902.[1]
He served in World War I as Chairman of the Admiralty Committee on Smoke Screens in 1915.[1] He is buried in Achnaba Churchyard, Ardchattan near Benderloch, Lorn, Argyll & Bute.
Dundonald Park, in Centretown, Ottawa, Ontario, is named after him.
Family
He married Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald and lived for many years at her home of Gwrych Castle in North Wales.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "King's College London Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives entry". http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/COCHRANE1.shtml. Retrieved 3 May 2006.
- ^ The Peerage.com
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Military offices Preceded by
Sir Richard O'Grady HalyGeneral Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada
1902–1904Succeeded by
Replaced by Chief of the General StaffPreceded by
The Lord GrenfellColonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards
1907–1919Succeeded by
Sir Cecil BinghamPeerage of Scotland Preceded by
Thomas Barnes CochraneEarl of Dundonald
1885–1935Succeeded by
Thomas Hesketh Douglas Blair CochraneGeneral Officers Commanding Edward Selby Smyth • Richard Luard • Frederick Dobson Middleton • Ivor Herbert • William Julius Gascoigne • Edward Hutton • Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly • Earl of Dundonald
Chiefs of the General Staff Percy Lake • William Otter • Colin Mackenzie • Willoughby Gwatkin • James MacBrien • Herbert Thacker • Andrew McNaughton • Ernest Ashton • Thomas Anderson • Harry Crerar • Kenneth Stuart • John Murchie • Charles Foulkes • Guy Simonds • Howard Graham • Samuel Clark • Geoffrey Walsh
Commanders, Mobile Command Jean Victor Allard • William Anderson • Gilles Turcot • William Milroy • Stanley Waters • Jacques Chouinard • Jean Jacques Paradis • Charles Belzile • James Fox • Kent Foster • Jim Gervais
Chiefs of the Land Staff Gord Reay • Maurice Baril • William Leach • Mike Jeffery • Rick Hillier • Marc Caron • Andrew Leslie • Peter Devlin
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