Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Eversley Belfield, KCB, KCMG, KBE, DSO (25 September 1857 – 19 April 1934) was a British Army officer who commanded the 4th Division from 1907 to 1911.
[5] From January 1902 he held the local rank of brigadier general on the staff in South Africa.
[6] He was mentioned in despatches on 23 June 1902 by Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief in South Africa during the latter part of the war,[7] and returned home in the SS Kinfauns Castle leaving Cape Town in early August 1902, after the war had ended.
[8] For his service in the early part of the war he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the April 1901 South Africa Honours list (the award was dated to 29 November 1900;[9] he only received the actual decoration from King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902).
[10] He was further awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in the October 1902 South Africa Honours list.