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Beauvoir De Lisle
General Sir Henry de Beauvoir De Lisle, (27 July 1864 – 16 July 1955) was a British Army General who served in the Second Boer War and World War I.
Military career.
Born in Guernsey and educated in Jersey, De Lisle was commissioned into the 2nd Bn Durham Light Infantry in 1883. He saw service with the Mounted Infantry in Egypt between 1885 and 1886, being awarded his DSO there, and was promoted to the rank of captain on 1 October 1891.
He studied
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- 1915–1917 Lieutenant-General Walter Congreve
- 1917–1918 Lieutenant-General Frederick McCracken
- March 1918 – April 1918 Lieutenant-General Beauvoir De Lisle
- Jun 1940 – Feb 1941 Lieutenant-General Richard O'Connor
- Apr–Sep 1941 Lieutenant-General Noel Beresford-Peirse
- Sep 1941 – Feb 1942 Lieutenant-General Reade Godwin-Austen
- Feb–Aug 1942 Lieutenant-General William Gott
- Aug–Dec 1942 Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks
- Dec 1942 – Dec 1943 Lieutenant-