Richard Bannatine-Allason

Bannatine-Allason was born Richard Allason Bannatine.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/rhabannatyneallason.htm|title=Major-General Sir Richard Bannatyne-Allason KCB CMG|publisher=British Empire|access-date=26 May 2020}} Educated at Wellington College,{{cite web|url=https://memorial.wellingtoncollege.org.uk/Filename.ashx?tableName=ta_wellingtoniansatwar&columnName=filename&recordId=29|title=A List of Old Wellingtonians Serving Their Country 1 August to 31 December 1914|page=6|publisher=Thomas Hunt|year=2015|access-date=26 May 2020}} he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in January 1875 and saw action in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879.{{cite web|url=http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/donkey/bannatine.htm|title=Richard Bannatine-Allason|publisher=Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060216031313/http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/donkey/bannatine.htm|access-date=26 May 2020|archive-date=2006-02-16}} He changed his name to Richard Bannatyne-Allason in 1885.

He saw further action in the Second Boer War, and after the war had ended stayed in South Africa as Colonel on the Staff for Royal Artillery from August 1902.{{London Gazette |issue=27521 |date=3 February 1903 |page=682}} Three years later, he became a military attaché serving with Japanese forces during the Russo-Japanese War. He became commander of the Nowshera Brigade in India in April 1910 and General Officer Commanding 51st (Highland) Division in August 1914 at the start of the First World War. He landed in France with his division in May 1915 and saw action at the Battle of Festubert on the Western Front later that month before handing over command in September 1915.{{cite web|url=https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/51st-highland-division/ |title=51st (Highland) Division|publisher=The Long, Long Trail|access-date=26 May 2020}} He returned to the UK and commanded the 61st (2nd South Midland) Division until February 1916;{{cite web|url=https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/british-divisional-commanders-during-the-great-war-first-thoughts/|title=British Divisional Commanders During the Great War - First Thoughts: Note 19|publisher=Western Front Association|access-date=26 May 2020}} he later also commanded the 64th (2nd Highland) Division also in the UK before retiring in September 1918.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George on 1 January 1919{{London Gazette |issue=31097 |date=31 December 1918|page=82|supp=y}} and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 1 January 1926.{{London Gazette |issue=14193 |date=1 January 1926|page=5|city=e}}

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