George Forestier-Walker

Major General Sir George Townshend Forestier-Walker KCB (2 August 1866 – 23 January 1939) was a senior British Army officer during World War I.

[9] He became chief staff officer of the Somaliland Field Force in 1902, assistant quartermaster general for intelligence for the Somaliland Field Force in December 1902[10] and saw action again during the East African campaign before becoming assistant quartermaster general at Southern Command in 1910.

[8][14] Forestier-Walker served in World War I, initially as chief of staff of II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), which, commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, went to France in August 1914.

[8] His performance, and that of his division, was not up to the standards expected by his superiors and, soon after the battle came to an end, he was removed by Lieutenant General Sir Charles Fergusson, Smith-Dorrien's successor as GOC of II Corps, "on the grounds of his unpopularity with the troops".

[19] In December 1916 he became GOC 27th Division, serving as part of the British Salonika Army on the Macedonian front and eventually, after the armistice of Mudros, at Tiflis in Georgia.

Forestier-Walker, pictured here when he was a colonel, together with Lieutenant-General Horace Smith-Dorrien and Colonel Paul Aloysius Kenna , sometime before the First World War.