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Edwin Alderson um 1910. Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson KCB (* 8. April 1859 in Capel St. Mary, Suffolk; † 14. Dezember 1927 in Lowestoft) war ein britischer Offizier, zuletzt Lieutenant-General, der im Ersten Weltkrieg als erster Kommandant des Canadian Corps fungierte, bis er, nachdem er wegen hoher Verluste unter den ihm ...
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. Mentioned in Despatches. Legion of Honour (France) Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson, KCB (8 April 1859 – 14 December 1927) was a senior British Army officer who served in several campaigns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Sir Edwin Alfred Harvey Alderson (1859-1927) served with Canadian forces during the First World War from 1914 until his removal from field command in 1916 in the wake of a calamitous command failure at St Eloi.
12. Aug. 2014 · Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson, KCB, first commanding officer of the 1st Canadian Division (October 1914–September 1915) and of the Canadian Corps (September 1915–May 1916), army officer, author (born 8 April 1859 in Capel St Mary, England; died 14 December 1927 in Lowestoft, England).
Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson, whose father was a veteran of the Crimean War and a lieutenant-colonel of the 97th Foot, grew up in a family dedicated to hunting and field sports. At 17 he was a subaltern in the Norfolk militia artillery and two years later, in 1878, he was gazetted to his father’s old unit, soon to become the Royal West Kent Regiment. Alderson joined it at Halifax, N.S., and ...
As a result, on 15 October 1914, Kitchener selected Lieutenant-General Edwin Alderson, a British officer, to command the Canadians. Alderson assumed field command of the 1st Canadian Division when it took up its position in the Allied lines near the Belgian town of Ypres in February 1915.
Division as new troops, but General Edwin Alderson, commander of the Canadian Corps, decided that the Canadians should take over the line in its entirety rather than dissect the Division. 9 . Although it was important to keep the Division together, this unplanned early relief only added to the confusion of the new Canadian Division. 10
