Aylmer Haldane

General Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane, GCMG, KCB, DSO (17 November 1862 – 19 April 1950)[1] was a Scottish soldier who rose to high rank in the British Army.

In September 1882, after attending the Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,[2] Haldane was commissioned as a British officer of the Gordon Highlanders.

[9] Haldane was appointed a staff captain in the intelligence section at the War Office on 27 June 1901,[10] promoted to major on 23 July 1902,[11] and received the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel on the following day.

[3] After the war, Haldane, his rank of lieutenant general being made permanent in January 1919,[23] was appointed GOC Mesopotamia in 1920 and remained in that post until 1922.

[3][25] Haldane died in his 88th year on 19 April 1950 at his home in London, his body was buried at Brookwood Cemetery, in Surrey.

Two tanks passing through Cologne, Germany for inspection by the GOC VI Corps, Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer Haldane, June 1919.
Coronation of Faisal as King of Iraq. Faisal seated, to his right are British High commissioner Percy Cox and Lieutenant Kinahan Cornwallis , to his left commander-in-chief of all British troops in the Mesopotamia Commander General Aylmer Haldane. [ 26 ]
Aylmer Haldane's grave in Brookwood Cemetery