Steuart Hare

Major-General Sir Steuart Welwood Hare, KCMG, CB (September 1867 – October 1952) was a British Army officer.

Sir Steuart Hare
Born	September 1867
Died	October 1952
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Major-General
Commands held	156th (Scottish Rifles) Brigade 27th Division 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division
Battles/wars	First World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Companion of the Order of the Bath

Military career

Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Hare was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 5 May 1886.[1] He took part in the Hazara Expedition of 1888, the Miranzai Expedition of 1891, the Isazai Expedition of 1892 and the Chitral Expedition of 1895.[2] He became commander of the 156th (Scottish Rifles) Brigade in August 1912.[3]

Hare commanded 8th Brigade during the landing at Cape Helles and was subsequently wounded in the leg during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War.[2] He was briefly acting General Officer Commanding 27th Division on the Macedonian front from December 1915.[4] After that he became General Officer Commanding 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division in April 1916 and commanded the division in Egypt and then in the First, Second and Third Battles of Gaza in 1917 and the Battle of Megiddo in September 1918 in Palestine.[4] The division was demobilised in September 1919,[5] but he continued to command it in its newly reconstituted form as a Territorial Army formation until he retired in July 1923.[3]

He lived at Blairlogie Castle, Blairlogie, Stirlingshire.[6]

Works

• Hare, Sir Steuart (1929). Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, Volume 4, The KRRC 1872-1913. Naval and Military Press.
• Hare, Sir Steuart (1929). Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, Volume 5, The Great War. Naval and Military Press.

References

1. "No. 24104". The London Gazette. 12 June 1874. p. 2995.
2. Davies, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (1995). Bloody Red Tabs: General Officer Casualties of the Great War 1914–1918. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-0850524635.
3. "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 4 June 2020.
4. "Private papers of Major-General Sir Steuart Hare KCMG". Retrieved 4 June 2020.
5. Becke, Major A. F. (1936). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 2A. The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42–56) (2007 Naval & Military Press reprint ed.). London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 131. ISBN 1-871167-12-4.
6. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.