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Alfred W. Knox


Born
in Ulster, Ireland
October 30, 1870

Died
March 09, 1964

Genre
Memoir


Major-General Sir Alfred William Fortescue Knox was a career British military officer and later a Conservative Party politician.

Knox joined the British Army when he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Irish Rifles on 2 May 1891, and was promoted to lieutenant on 18 November 1893. He was posted to British India where he joined the 5th Punjab Infantry, became a double company commander, and was promoted to captain on 10 July 1901. He was adjutant to the Southern Waziristan Militia, and as such took part in operations in Waziristan under Major-General Charles Egerton in summer 1902, for which he was mentioned in despatches.

In 1911 General Knox was appointed the British Military Attaché in Russia. A fluent speaker of Russian, he became ...more

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