Spencer Ewart

Sir Spencer Ewart
General Sir Spencer Ewart
Born	1861
Died	1930 (aged 68 or 69)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	Scottish Command
Battles/wars	Battle of Tel el-Kebir Second Boer War First World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Lieutenant General Sir John Spencer Ewart, KCB (1861–1930) was a British Army officer who became Adjutant-General to the Forces .

Military career

Educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,^[1] Spencer Ewart was commissioned into the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in 1881.^[2]

He served with his regiment in Egypt and fought at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir in 1882.^[1] He was also involved in the Nile Expedition in 1884 and served with the Sudan Frontier Field Force from 1885 to 1886.^[2] He also served in the Second Boer War in South Africa,^[2] and returned to the United Kingdom after the end of that war in July 1902.^[3]

In 1904 he was appointed as Military Secretary and in 1906 moved on to be Director of Military Operations at the War Office.^[2] In 1910 he was appointed Adjutant-General to the Forces: he resigned in March 1914 over the Curragh Incident when British officers stationed at the Curragh Camp near Dublin made it clear that they would not want to march against Ulstermen in the north.^[1] He was appointed General Officer Commanding Scottish Command in 1914, a post he held until 1918: he retired in 1920.^[2]

Ewart was an Aide-de-Camp General to King George V from 1910 to 1914.^[2]

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