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Stuart Peter Rolt

Stuart Rolt
Colonel S. P. Rolt.jpg
A 1905 portrait of Holt by John St Helier Lander
Born (1862-07-29)29 July 1862
Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Died 8 May 1933(1933-05-08) (aged 70)
St Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales
Allegiance United Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch Flag of the British Army.svg British Army
Years of service 1884–1918
Rank Brigadier-General
Commands held 14th Infantry Brigade
RMC Sandhurst
170th Brigade
Battles/wars Second Boer War
First World War
Awards Companion of the Order of the Bath

Brigadier-General Stuart Peter Rolt, CB (29 July 1862 – 8 May 1933) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Stuart Rolt was the son of Peter Rolt, a Conservative Member of Parliament. He was commissioned into the York and Lancaster Regiment as a lieutenant on 30 January 1884, promoted to captain on 28 April 1890, and saw service in the Second Boer War, commanding the Rhodesia Regiment, where he was wounded in action. Promotion to major came while in South Africa, on 21 February 1900, followed by promotion to the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel on 29 November 1900. After his return to the United Kingdom, he was appointed an Assistant Inspector of Gymnasia at Aldershot on 5 February 1901.

In 1911 he was appointed to command of 14th Infantry Brigade, in 5th Division; when the First World War broke out in July 1914, he took it to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force.


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