Brigadier-General Henry Robert Kelham CB (1853 – 4 October 1931) was a senior British Army officer.
[4] Kelham was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 4 November 1899, and appointed in command of the 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry which was sent to South Africa to reinforce British troops during the Second Boer War.
For his service in the war, he was mentioned in dispatches, and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).
[5] The battalion stayed in South Africa throughout the war, which ended in June 1902, when they were reassigned to Egypt.
Kelham was in command of 700 officers and men when they left Durban for Egypt on the SS Plassy in January 1903.