Lieutenant General Sir Edward Thomas Humphreys, KCB, CMG, DSO (5 November 1878 – 15 January 1955) was a British Army officer who commanded the 5th Division from 1931 to 1934.
In South Africa he was adjutant of the Mounted Infantry Battalion,[5] and was promoted to captain on 5 October 1901.
[4] Humphreys served in South Africa throughout the war, which formally ended in June 1902 after the Peace of Vereeniging, and returned to the posting as regular officer in the 2nd Battalion of his regiment in late September 1902.
[6] He joined other officers and men of the battalion who left Cape Town on the SS Britannic in October that year, and was stationed at Aldershot after their return.
[7] Humphreys served in the First World War in France and then with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, latterly as a brigade commander.