General Sir Cameron Deane Shute, KCB, KCMG (15 March 1866 – 25 January 1936), was a senior British Army officer during the First World War.
[3] After graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Shute was commissioned into the Welsh Regiment in August 1885.
[4][5] He transferred to the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) in September 1895, receiving a promotion to captain in his new regiment,[6] and participated in the Nile Expedition and the Siege of Khartoum in 1898.
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[4] After the war his CB was upgraded to a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath (KCB)[18] and he was also awarded the French Legion of Honour, January 1919.