George Kemball
| Sir George Vero Kemball | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 October 1858 Fairseat, Wrotham, United Kingdom |
| Died | 10 January 1941 (aged 83) |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
|
| Service/branch | Royal Artillery, British Army |
| Years of service | 1878–1919 |
| Rank | Major General (1914–1919) Colonel Commandant Royal Artillery (1927–1929) |
| Commands held |
28th Indian Brigade 5th (Mhow) Division |
| Battles/wars |
Second Afghan War (1878–1880) Chitral Expedition (1895) (1897) Kaduna Expedition (1900) Bida Expedition (1901) Kano-Sokoto Expedition (1903) World War I (1914–1918) - France (1914–1915) - Mesopotamia (1916) |
| Awards |
DSO (1901) CB (1903) K.C.M.G. (1917) |
Major-General Sir George Vere Kemball, KCMG, CB, DSO, R.A. (1859–1941) was a British Army officer of the 19th and early 20th century. He was a career officer in the British Army spending most of his career in India and Africa.
George Kemball was the son of Major-General John Shaw Kemball. He had a younger brother, Arnold Henry Grant Kemball, who commanded the 54th (Kootenay) Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. His father and uncle were both generals in the British Army. His grandfather, Vero Shaw Kemball, had been the Surgeon-General for Bombay. Other ancestors served various regiments of the British Army, including the Black Watch, as well as the Indian Army. In 1889, he married Hattie Elliot. With his brother, he attended Twyford before going to Harrow.
After attending Twyford School and Harrow, he obtained a commission as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1878. After serving in the Second Afghan War (1878–1880), he was promoted to captain in 1886. In 1895, he was assigned to the staff of the Chitral Relief Force, working as the Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General for Intelligence, for which he was mentioned in dispatches and be brevetted to major. In 1898, he was promoted to major.
In 1897, Kemball took part in the along the North-West Frontier, for which he was also mentioned in dispatches. In 1900, Kemball saw action in Africa, campaigning in Nigeria in the Kaduna Expedition. He was appointed Inspector general and thus acting commander of the West African Frontier Force, taking command of an expedition against the Bida and Kontagora in January 1901, for which he would receive the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in April 1902. He was also promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1901, and made a local brigadier general. He commanded British forces in the Kano-Sokoto Expedition in 1903, for which he was rewarded with a C.B.
After the Kano-Sokoto Expedition, Kemball was recalled to London, where he was involved in the recruiting and selection of personnel for service in Nigeria. From 1909 until 1913, he worked at the War Office. In 1914, he returned to India, where he was given command of a brigade and promoted to major general.
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