Sir Hugh Davie White-Thomson

Hugh Davie White-Thomson was the youngest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir R T White-Thomson. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery on 9 December 1884, later obtaining his ‘Jacket’ as a Royal Horse artilleryman. He served in South Africa, where he was wounded, winning a DSO.

His service as a general officer on the Western Front was short. He was BGRA Cavalry Corps (February–September 1915) and then CRA 27th Division (September 1915–September 1916). 27th Division was transferred to Salonika in November 1915 and remained there for the rest of the war. So did White-Thomson, latterly as BGRA XII Corps. He was knighted in 1919.