Percy Hambro

Major-General Sir Percival Otway Hambro KBE, CB, CMG (10 December 1870 – 25 November 1931) was a British Army officer.

Educated at Eton College,[1] Hambro was commissioned into the 4th Battalion, the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) before transferring to the 15th The King's Hussars on 18 June 1892.

[2] After serving in the Second Boer War, he saw action as Quarter-Master General for the 3rd Division on the Western Front during First World War[3] for which he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.

[4] After the war he took charge of logistics in Baghdad.

[5][6] He became Major-General, Administration at Aldershot Command in November 1925 and General Officer Commanding the 46th (North Midland) Division in May 1927 before retiring in May 1931.

King George V visiting the ruins of Peronne, 13 July 1917. With him are Lieutenant-General William Pulteney , GOC III Corps, and Brigadier-General Percy Hambro, the Quartermaster General of III Corps.