Major General Douglas Edward Cayley, CB, CMG (15 July 1870 – 19 December 1951) was a British Army officer of the First World War who played an important part in the evacuation of soldiers from Gallipoli.
Following the end of this war, he left South Africa on the SS Kildonan Castle, which arrived at Southampton in October 1902.
[8] In 1904 he was promoted to major,[14] and in 1914, the year the First World War began, to lieutenant colonel, when he was commanding the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment.
[8] In June, as the campaign was being fought, he was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general[15] and assumed command of the 29th Division's 88th Infantry Brigade.
[20][21][22][23] Cayley was granted the honorary rank of major general in November 1919[24] and retired from the army in 1920, later settling in Hampshire.