Alexander Hutchison (Royal Marines officer)

General Sir Alexander Richard Hamilton Hutchison, was a Royal Marines officer who served as Adjutant-General Royal Marines.

Background and family

Hutchison was the second son of Colonel Frederick Joe Hutchison, 84th Regiment with his second wife Elizabeth Schlesinger. He was born in Colombo, Ceylon, where his father was stationed at the time of his birth in 1871. He married at Holy Trinity Church, Gosport, on 7 January 1903, Georgina Courtenay Haswell, from Gosport, eldest daughter of W. H. Haswell, Fleet Paymaster in the Royal Navy.

Military career

Hutchison was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry on 28 March 1890. Promoted to captain on 6 December 1897, he fought in the Second Boer War.
He served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters Royal Marine Forces in 1915 and then saw action in the Gallipoli campaign later that year. He was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general in June 1917 and took command of a brigade, before becoming Assistant Adjutant-General Royal Marines in July 1918 during the latter stages of the First World War.
Hutchison went on to be Adjutant-General Royal Marines from March 1924 before retiring in December 1927.