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Geoffrey White (British Army officer)
British Army general

Geoffrey White (British Army officer)

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Major-General Geoffrey Herbert Anthony White CB CMG DSO (3 November 1870 – 15 December 1959) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Military career

Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, White was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1890. He served in the Second Boer War and was present at the Relief of Kimberley and in 1910 became Superintendent of the Royal Artillery Riding Establishment. He served in World War I as Commander of K Battery, Royal Horse Artillery and as Commander, Royal Artillery for 30th Division. He was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1918, Commandant of the Woolwich Sub-Area in 1920 and Director of Remounts at the War Office in 1925 before he retired in 1929.

He was author of the book Single And Pair Horse Driving published by the British Driving Society in 1950.

Family

In 1918 White married Beatrice de Chair.

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