Major Sir Alexander Bannerman, 11th Baronet (16 December 1871 – 10 March 1934)[1] was a pioneer British military aviator.

Bannerman was born in Brackley in Northamptonshire and educated at Wellington College and subsequently at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

[5] After the war he returned to the United Kingdom on the SS Orotava which arrived at Southampton in early September 1902,[6] only to depart again in 1903 on a special mission to Japan as British military attache at the Japanese headquarters during the Russo-Japanese War.

[9][10] In April 1911, when the School of Ballooning was reorganized and the Air Battalion was formed within the Royal Engineers, Bannerman served as its commandant.

[13][14] Sir Alexander Bannerman died on 10 March 1934 at the age of 62 in George in the Cape Province, South Africa.