Harry Tytler

Major-General Sir Harry Christopher Tytler KCB CMG CIE DSO (26 September 1867 – 16 May 1939) was a British Indian Army officer who specialised in running lines of communication, and also an amateur naturalist.

He was educated at Mr Frank Townsend's School, Clifton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Leaving as Queen's (India) Cadet, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment in January 1886[3][4] and in November 1887 transferred to the Indian Army[5] and joined the 17th Infantry.

In 1919, as a temporary brigadier-general, he served as inspector-general of the lines of communication in the Third Anglo-Afghan War, being mentioned in despatches for the fifth time[13] and being appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in August 1920,[14] and then from October 1919 to May 1920,[15] held the same post with the Waziristan Field Force, receiving his sixth mention[16][17] and being appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in June 1921.

In 1924 he was appointed General Officer Commanding Burma Independent District, in which post he served until his retirement in June 1928.