Walter Pitt-Taylor

General Sir Walter William Pitt-Taylor, KCB, CMG, DSO (30 August 1878 – 22 November 1950) was a British Army officer who commanded the 3rd Infantry Division from 1932 to 1934.

Pitt-Taylor was commissioned into the Army Militia as a second lieutenant in the 5th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) on 4 December 1895.

He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 August 1900, and served in Natal and in the Transvaal, staying in South Africa throughout the hostilities, which ended with the Peace of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902.

[6] After the war he became Military Assistant to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

[8] Pitt-Taylor died on 22 November 1950 at Barscobe, Castle Douglas, Scotland, aged 72.