Arthur Daly (British Army officer)

Daly was the eighth child and youngest son of General Sir Henry Dermot Daly and Susan Kirkpatrick, and the brother of Hugh Daly. He was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before being commissioned into the Welch Regiment in April 1890.The London Gazette, 2 May 1890 http://www.dungannonwardead.com/pdfs/02034.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301061835/http://www.dungannonwardead.com/pdfs/02034.pdf |date=2017-03-01 }}{{London Gazette|issue=26047|page=2542|date=2 May 1890}} He was subsequently transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment, was promoted to lieutenant on 7 March 1892,{{London Gazette|issue=26277|page=2167|date=12 April 1892}} and then, while serving as an adjutant, to captain on 15 February 1899.{{London Gazette|issue=27061|page=1672|date=10 March 1899}}

Appointed adjutant of the 2nd Battalion on 15 February 1898, he first saw active service in the Second Boer War, during which he was severely wounded during action in Natal. He was reported seriously ill with enteric fever near Pietermaritzburg in March 1900,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War – Casualties|date=7 March 1900 |page=10 |issue=36083}} but recovered, was mentioned in despatches (dated 8 April 1902),{{London Gazette |issue= 27443 |pages=3967–3974 |date= 17 June 1902 }} and received a brevet promotion as major in the South African Honours list published on 26 June 1902.{{London Gazette |issue= 27448 |supp=y |pages=4191–4194 |date= 26 June 1902}} Following the end of the war in June 1902, he left Cape Town on the SS Sicilia and returned to Southampton in late July,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Army in South Africa – Troops returning home |date=16 July 1902 |page=11 |issue=36821}} where he went back as a regular officer in his regiment.{{London Gazette|issue= 27474|date=16 September 1902 |page=5961}}

He was promoted to major in March 1910.{{London Gazette|issue=28350|page=2031|date=22 March 1910}} In September 1912 he became a commander of a company of gentlemen cadets at the RMC, Sandhurst.{{London Gazette|issue=28644|page=6785|date=13 September 1912}}

After the outbreak of the First World War, Daly became deputy assistant quartermaster general of the IV Corps in October 1914.The London Gazette, 20 November 1914 http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28981/pages/9541/page.pdf He was assistant adjutant and quartermaster general of the 7th Division between 1914 and 1915. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1915,The London Gazette, 18 February 1915 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29074/supplement/1686/data.pdf and was given his first brigade command in May, the 6th Infantry Brigade,S. Robbins, British Generalship During the Great War: The Military Career of Sir Henry Horne (1861–1929) (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010), 82. taking over from Major General Robert Fanshawe and for which he was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general while commanding the brigade.{{London Gazette|issue=29218|page=6589|date=6 July 1915}} He then commanded the 33rd Infantry Brigade between February and September 1917,A. Turner, Messines 1917: The Zenith of Siege Warfare (Osprey Publishing, 2010), 34. when he was made commander of the 24th Division in September 1917, when he was promoted to temporary major general.{{London Gazette|issue=30359|page=11256|date=30 October 1917|supp=y}}Sir Douglas Haig's Despatch on the German spring offensive (Despatch No.6), http://www.1914-1918.net/haigs_michael_despatch.html He held this post until the division was disbanded in 1919. Daly was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1918 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1919.{{London Gazette|issue=31370|page=6791|date=30 May 1919}}

He was promoted to substantive major general in January 1923{{London Gazette|issue=32793|page=909|date=6 February 1923}} and was inspector general and military advisor to the minister of defence in Iraq between 1925 and 1927, and, after serving on half-pay from August 1927,{{London Gazette|issue=33301|page=5178|date=9 August 1927}} retired from the army in 1928.

Daly married Grace Wilkinson, the daughter of Major H. C. Wilkinson, in 1897. Together they had two children. Daly's son was Air Vice-Marshal George Dermot Daly (1898–1974). Daly died in Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1936, at the age of 65.

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