Basil Crockett
| Basil Edwin Crockett | |
|---|---|
| Born |
14 July 1877 Kensington, Middlesex |
| Died | 13 October 1939 (aged 62) Hammersmith, Middlesex |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
|
| Service/branch | British Army |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Commands held | 11th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |
Distinguished Service Order & Two Bars Mentioned in Despatches (8) |
Northwest Frontier
Second Boer War
First World War
Colonel Basil Edwin Crockett DSO & Two Bars (14 July 1877 – 13 October 1939) was a senior officer in the British Army.
Basil Crockett was born on in 1877 into a military family, the son of Edwin Arthur Brassey Crockett (1834–1915). Educated at Wellington, and Sandhurst, he commissioned into the 17th Lancers before attending Staff College in Poona, India. He served on the Northwest Frontier. Joining a Volunteer Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders during the Second South African War, he was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal bearing the clasps for South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, Orange Free State, Transvaal, and Cape Colony. Following the war he was commissioned a second lieutenant in a regular battalion of the Gordon Highlanders on 23 April 1902.
After a spell with the Leicestershire Regiment, a transfer Crockett made so he could concentrate on his passion of fox hunting, but subsequently regretted. He left the army in 1914, only to immediately rejoin on the outbreak of the First World War, whereupon he was given command of the 11th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment at Farnham; a command Crockett, as essentially a cavalry officer, initially resented.
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