Edward Fanshawe (British Army officer)

Edward Fanshawe
1917 portrait by Francis Dodd
Born	4 April 1859
Died	13 November 1952
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1878–1923
Rank	Lieutenant General
Unit	Royal Artillery
Commands held	31st Division 11th (Northern) Division V Corps
Battles/wars	Second Anglo-Afghan War First World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Relations	Maj-Gen. Sir Robert Fanshawe, Lt-Gen. Sir Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe (brothers)

Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Arthur Fanshawe KCB (4 April 1859 – 13 November 1952) was a British Army general of the First World War, who commanded the 11th (Northern) Division at Gallipoli and the V Corps on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme, the Third Battle of Ypres, and the 1918 Spring Offensive. He was the second eldest of four brothers Henry Leighton Fanshawe, the eldest, (Edward), Hew, and Robert) and he, together with the last two, all rose to command divisions or corps during the war.

Fanshawe was born in 1859, the son of the Reverend Henry Leighton Fanshawe, of Chilworth, Oxfordshire. He attended Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, then joined the Royal Artillery in 1878. He was the eldest of three brothers with significant military careers; Hew (b. 1860) joined the cavalry and Robert (b. 1863) joined the infantry, all three rising to command corps or divisions during the First World War.

He married Rose Higginson, daughter of Sir James Higginson, in 1893; they had three sons.

He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878-80 and the Sudan expedition of 1885, rising steadily through the ranks thereafter; captain in 1886, major in 1896, lieutenant-colonel in 1903, and colonel in 1908. In 1909 he was appointed to command the artillery in one of the regular divisions garrisoned in Ireland; whilst serving there, he was personally commended by the King for saving an artilleryman from being crushed by a cavalry parade in Dublin. In 1913, he was transferred to command the divisional artillery in the Wessex Division of the Territorial Force.