SMITH-DORRIEN, SIR HORACE

LOCK WOOD (1858), British soldier; entered army in 1876; first saw active service in Zulu War, 1879; raised and commanded mounted infantry in in Egyptian War, 1882, and served Sudan campaigns, 1885-86; in the Boer War, 1899-1901, gained distinction as a leader; was commander-in-chief at Alders hot, 1907-12, and of the Southern Command, 1912-14. On outbreak of World War he was placed in command of the 2nd Army Corps, 1914-15, and after the retreat from Mons was praised in Sir John French’s dispatch. {in 1915 he was appointed commander in-chief in E. Africa, but on reaching the Cape a breakdown in his health compelled him to retire. He _ was later appointed lieutenant of the Tower of London, which post he vacated on his appointment as governor of Gibraltar,