Arthur Edward George [SEP] place of birth
, Dorset, England on 17 June 1875; his family moved to Newcastle upon Tyne while he was a child. He was a talented athlete, being a swimmer, figure skater and racing cyclist at international level.
After serving an engineering apprenticeship in Newcastle, he lived for some time in South Africa, where he became national cycling champion and represented South Africa at the 1899 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Montreal, Canada. He served with the Cape Colony Cyclist Corps from 7 January 1901 until 12 May 1902 in the
- 1932–1935 Lieutenant-General Oswald Borrett
- 1935–1938 Major-General Arthur Bartholomew
- 1938–1941 Major-General Edward Grasett
- Aug–Dec 1941 Major-General Christopher Maltby
Commander British Forces in Hong Kong
- 1945–1946 Major-General Sir Francis Festing
- 1946–1948 Major-General Sir George Erskine
- 1948–1949 Major-General Francis Matthews
- Jun–Sep 1949 Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Festing
- 1949–1951 Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Mansergh
- 1951–1952 Major-General Geoffrey Evans
- 1952–1954 Major