Colin Robert Ballard

Brigadier General Colin Robert Ballard, CB, CMG (20 July 1868 – 17 June 1941) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and a military author.

Ballard spent his early life in Scotland and then in Kent before attending the United Services College, Westward Ho!, Devon in 1885.

After the end of the war in June that year, he left Cape Town in the SS Bavarian in August, returning to Southampton the following month.

[5] It was not long, however, before he was on the move again and this time Ballard found himself as Transport Officer for the Somaliland Field Force[6] during 1903 and 1904 before being appointed Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General in Ceylon in 1905, taking over from Hanway Cumming,[7] and then Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General in Ceylon from 1905[8] until 1908.

His service in France and Flanders earned him three mentions in despatches, a brevet colonel promotion and, in common with his father and with his older brother Admiral George Alexander Ballard, appointment as a Companion of the Order of the Bath.