Walter Braithwaite
| Sir Walter Pipon Braithwaite | |
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At Gallipoli, 1915
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| Nickname(s) | Braith |
| Born |
11 November 1865 Alne, North Yorkshire |
| Died | 7 September 1945 (aged 79) Rotherwick |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/branch | British Army |
| Years of service | 1886–1931 |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held |
Eastern Command (1926–27) Scottish Command (1923–26) Western Command, India (1920–23) XII Corps (1919) IX Corps (1918–19) 62nd Division (1917–18) |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Mentioned in Despatches |
Second Boer War
First World War
General Sir Walter Pipon Braithwaite, GCB (11 November 1865 – 7 September 1945) was a British Army officer who held senior commands during the First World War. After being dismissed from his position as Chief of Staff for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, he received some acclaim as a competent divisional commander on the Western Front. After the war, he was commissioned to produce a report analysing the performance of British staff officers during the conflict.
Braithwaite was born in Alne, the son of the Reverend William Braithwaite and Laura Elizabeth Pipon. He was the youngest of twelve children. He was educated at Victoria College between 1875 and 1880, and at Bedford School between 1880 and 1884.
Braithwaite studied at the Royal Military Academy, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Somerset Light Infantry in 1886. In 1895, he married Jessie Ashworth, with whom he had a son, Valentine. He served in the Second Boer War, seeing action at Ladysmith, Spion Kop, Vaal Krantz and Tugela Heights. He was mentioned in despatches three times. After the war, he returned to England and was posted to Southern Command on the staff of Evelyn Wood. In 1906, Braithwaite was promoted to major, and transferred to The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He was later promoted to lieutenant colonel, and served as an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley. In 1909, he was assigned to the staff of Douglas Haig at the War Office, and promoted to colonel. He was subsequently named commandant of the Staff College, Quetta, a position he still held at the outbreak of the First World War. At this point, the college was closed, and he was again transferred to the War Office, this time as Director of Staff Duties.
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