[1] In 1905, he led a punitive expedition which resulted in the killings of 1,850 men, women and children of the Kipsigis tribe.

[2] He was deployed to South Africa and served with the West African Frontier Force during the Second Boer War.

[2][6] After the war he was promoted to brevet colonel in January 1919[7] and, promoted again, now to colonel (with seniority backdated to January 1919[8]), he served as a staff officer at the War Office and then was Military Inter-Allied Commissioner of Control in Berlin.

[11] Pope-Hennessy published a number of books an articles on military matters and in one of them he predicted the technique of the German Blitzkrieg.

The Liberal Party had not fielded a candidate at the previous general election and he was not expected to win and finished a poor third.