Arthur Edward Aitken

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Brigadier-General Arthur Edward Aitken (25 May 1861 – 29 March 1924) was a British military commander.

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Military career Born in Rochford in Essex, by the time of the 1871 Census he was a 9-year-old pupil at a school in Brighton, Sussex. Aitken was commissioned from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in January 1880 into the 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot (later the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment) but transferred to the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot (later the Worcestershire Regiment) in February. He saw active service in the Sudan in 1885. He transferred over to the Indian Staff Corps, where he was promoted major on 14 January 1900. While in India, Aitken, a lieutenant colonel in May 1904, was promoted to brevet colonel in 1911 and later that year in November to the temporary rank of brigadier-general while serving as a staff officer. Following the outbreak of the First World War three years later, Aitken, as a temporary major-general, led the first notable incursion into German East Africa at the head of Indian Expeditionary Force B, and was defeated at the Battle of Tanga in early November 1914. The battle is often known as the "Battle of the Bees" for the swarms of bees that repeatedly interrupted fighting, with both sides fleeing…Citește mai mult