Aylmer Haldane

Sir Aylmer Haldane
c. 1900
Born	17 November 1862 Gleneagles, Scotland
Died	19 April 1950 London, United Kingdom
Buried at	Brookwood Cemetery
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1882–1925
Rank	General
Commands held	10th Infantry Brigade 3rd Division 6th Army Corps
Battles/wars	Second Boer War World War I
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order

General Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane, GCMG, KCB, DSO (17 November 1862 – 19 April 1950) was a senior British Army officer with a long and distinguished career.

Born to physician Daniel Rutherford Haldane and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth née Lowthorpe, James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane came from a family of distinguished Scottish aristocrats based in Gleneagles.

In September 1882, after attending the Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Haldane was commissioned as a British officer of the Gordon Highlanders. On 18 February 1886, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and on 8 April 1892 to the rank of captain.

Between 1894 and 1895, Haldane was part of the Waziristan Field Force and participated in the Chitral Expedition. He was dispatched to quell the Afridis rebellion in the Tirah campaign for the next two years (1897–1898), was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) on 20 May 1898, and became aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief East Indies later the same year. Haldane fought in the Second Boer War in South Africa, where he was taken a war prisoner. While imprisoned in Pretoria, he planned the escape which made Winston Churchill famous. Haldane failed to escape at the same time and later complained of Churchill's lack of regard for those who should have escaped with him. However, Haldane later managed his own escape.

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