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Major-General Robert Arthur Montgomery, CB, CVO (7 September 1848 – 1931) was a British Army officer who commanded Southern District.
Military career
Montgomery was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1868. He became Deputy Director-General of the Ordnance in 1897, Commander Royal Artillery for Southern District, based in Portsmouth, in November 1902 and General Officer Commanding Southern District, also based in Portsmouth, in November 1903. He went on to be General Officer Commanding South Coast Defences in April 1904 and then General Officer Commanding Transvaal District in May 1906 before returning to England in April 1908.
He served briefly in the First World War initially as a General Officer Commanding a division of Lord Kitchener's Army at Seaford and then as Director of Recruiting in Autumn 1915.
He came from Greyabbey, Ireland but lived at Pentrepant, in the parish of Selattyn, near Oswestry in Shropshire. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the June 1902 Coronation Honours list.