Major General Sir Guy Archibald Hastings Beatty KBE CB CSI CMG DSO & Bar (22 June 1870 – 22 May 1954) was an officer in the British Indian Army.
He was first commissioned into the Royal Irish Regiment in 1889, but transferred to 9th Hodson's Horse, part of the British Indian Army, in 1892.
[14] In the Third Afghan War he was in command of the 6th Indian Infantry Brigade and, on 17/18 September 1919, was involved in the destruction of Yar Muhammed's fort at Chora.
[18] He was given command of the Rawalpindi divisional area in India in 1920, soon after he took the 75th Indian Infantry Brigade to Iraq as re-inforcements to quell an insurrection, and was once more mentioned in despatches, defending the Persian lines of communications.
[19][1] He left Iraq in February 1921 and in March 1921 he was again promoted to temporary brigadier general,[20] In September 1921, Beatty was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India.
[21] In October 1921 he became temporary colonel commandment of 1st Indian Cavalry Brigade[1][22] and at the end of the year in December was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
[1] Sir Guy Archibald Hastings Beatty died at his home in Budleigh Salterton, Devon in 1954 aged 83.