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 X LIEUT.-GENERAL JAMES AYLMER LOWTHORPE HALDANE, C.B., D.S.O. GENERAL HALDANE was born on November lyth, 1862, of a well-known Scottish family which has given many dis- tinguished members to the learned professions. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Sandhurst, and, in 1882, joined the Gordon Highlanders. He served in the Waziristan Campaign of 1894 ; the Chitral Campaign of 1895 ; the Tirah Campaign of 1897 ; and from 1896-99 he was A.D.C. to Sir William Lockhart. He received the D.S.O. for his work on the Indian frontier. During the South African War he fought with the 2nd Gordon Highlanders at Elandslaagte, where he was severely wounded. He was in command of the armoured train which was captured at Chieveley on November i5th, 1899. The story of his escape from Pretoria after some months' imprisonment is one of the romances of the South African Campaign. He rejoined his battalion and was present at some of the later actions of the war, receiving a brevet Lieut. -Colonelcy. During the Russo-Japanese War he was Military Attache with the Japanese Army, and was present at the Battles of Liao-yang, Sha-Ho, and Mukden. He went to France in August, 1914, in command of the loth Infantry Brigade, which was part of the 4th Division in the III Corps. The Brigade arrived in time for the Battle of Le Cateau, and took part in all the subsequent fighting, being heavily engaged in the Armentieres area during the First Battle of Ypres. General Haldane was one of the first Brigadiers to receive a Division. He succeeded Major-General Sir Hubert Hamilton in command of the 3rd Division in October, 1914,