Ewart, Spencer, 1861-1930

LC control no.	no2019036760
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Ewart, Spencer, 1861-1930 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Ewart, John Spencer, 1861-1930
Associated country	Great Britain
Associated place	Egypt South Africa
Birth date	1861
Death date	1930
Affiliation	Great Britain. Army. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Great Britain. Department of the Military Secretary
Profession or occupation	Great Britain--Armed Forces--Officers
Found in	The war in Egypt--the charge of the Household Cavalry under Col. Ewart, C.B, at Kassassin, Aug. 28, 1882-1884: image caption (Col. Ewart, C.B.) Wikipedia, March 12, 2019 (Spencer Ewart; Lieutenant General Sir John Spencer Ewart, KCB (1861-1930); British Army officer; son of General Sir John Alexander Ewart KCB, aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria and hero of the Siege of Lucknow; educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in 1881; served with his regiment in Egypt and fought at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir in 1882; involved in the Nile Expedition in 1884; served with the Sudan Frontier Field Force 1885-1886; staff officer in the Second Boer War in South Africa, and returned to the UK after the end of that war in July 1902; appointed Assistant Military Secretary and received rank of colonel on 15 October 1902; appointed Military Secretary in 1904, and Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1906; appointed Adjutant-General to the Forces in 1910, resigned in March 1914; General Officer Commanding Scottish Command in 1914-1918; retired in 1920)