George K. Cockerill

Brigadier General Sir George Kynaston Cockerill, CB (13 August 1867 – 19 April 1957) was a British Army officer and a Conservative Party politician.

Cockerill was the son of the Surgeon-General Robert William Cockerill, and his wife Clara Sandys, daughter of Major-General Charles Pooley.

He joined the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) in February 1888, was promoted to a lieutenant on 26 June 1889, and served in the Hazara Expedition in 1891. From 1892 to 1895 he explored the eastern Hindu Kush, for which he won the MacGregor Memorial medal and was a gold medallist of the Royal United Services Institute in India. He served with the Chitral Relief Force in 1895, on the North-West Frontier of India from 1897 to 1898, and was promoted to captain (supernumerary) on 11 February 1899. He was a staff officer in the Second Boer War from 1900 to 1902, serving as deputy assistant adjutant general for communications from February 1900. For his war service, he was mentioned in despatches (dated 8 April 1902) and received the brevet promotion as major in the South African Honours list published on 26 June 1902. Following the end of the war, he received a regular commission as a captain in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in August 1902. In 1907 he became a major in the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), and retired from that post in 1910.