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Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode

Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode, 7th Baronet of Oakley, GCB, OM, GCSI, KCMG, DSO, GCStJ (21 September 1869 – 6 July 1950), was a senior British Army officer. He saw action during the Second Boer War, during which he was present at the Siege of Ladysmith in December 1899. He saw action again during World War I on the Western Front, taking part in the First Battle of Ypres, and then in the Sinai and Palestine campaign during which he led his corps at the First Battle of Gaza in March 1917, at the Battle of Beersheba in October 1917 and the Battle of Jerusalem in November 1917.

The Lord Chetwode

21 September 1869
Westminster, England

6 July 1950(1950-07-06) (aged 80)
Marylebone, England

United Kingdom

British Army

1889–1935

Field Marshal

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
19th Royal Hussars

19th Royal Hussars
London Mounted Brigade
5th Cavalry Brigade
2nd Cavalry Division
Desert Column
XX Corps
Aldershot Command
Commander-in-Chief, India

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Member of the Order of Merit
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order

Constable of the Tower
President of the Royal Geographical Society

After the War he held a series of senior military appointments including Adjutant-General to the Forces and then Commander in Chief Aldershot Command. He went on to be Chief of the General Staff in India in 1928 and Commander in Chief in India in 1930 and was much concerned with the modernisation and "Indianisation" of the army in India.

Early life and education[edit]

Born the son of Sir George Chetwode, 6th Baronet, and Alice Jane Bass (daughter of Michael Thomas Bass the brewer), Chetwode was educated at Eton, where he was an athlete of some distinction, and entered the army through the Militia with his first commission being in the 3rd battalion the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 11 April 1888.[1] He then received a regular commission with the 19th Hussars on 20 November 1889.[2]

Roger Chetwode married Honourable Molly Berry, daughter of the 1st . He was killed on active service on 14 August 1940 at age 34, leaving two sons: Philip, the 2nd Baron Chetwode, and Christopher.

Viscount Camrose

Honourable married John Betjeman the poet (later Poet Laureate) and had a son Paul and daughter Candida Lycett Green.

Penelope Chetwode

Chetwode married Hester (Star) Alice Camilla Stapleton Cotton and had a son Roger and a daughter Penelope.[23]


Chetwode's sister Florence was married to General Noel Birch.

DSO : – 20 November 1900 – for services during the operations in South Africa (Second Boer War)[5]

Companion of the Distinguished Service Order

KCMG : – 4 June 1917[28]

Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George

GCB

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KJStJ : – 23 December 1930[32]

Knight of Justice of the Venerable Order of St. John

GCSI : – 4 June 1934[33]

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India

OM : – 1 January 1936[34]

Member of the Order of Merit

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