Francis Inglefield

Francis Seymour Inglefield was a British Army officer.

Military career

Inglefield was commissioned into the 15th Regiment of Foot as a lieutenant on 13 June 1874. The regiment was re-named the East Yorkshire Regiment in 1881, and he was promoted to captain on 30 June 1884, then major on 2 July 1892. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War in South Africa, he served as a special service officer in the Orange Free State February to May 1900 and in the Transvaal May to August 1900, seeing action several times including at the Battle of Poplar Grove on 7 March 1900 and the Battle of Driefontein in March 1900. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel in command of the 2nd battalion of his regiment on 29 April 1900 while in South Africa, and left for home with other officers and men of this battalion in late 1902, after the end of the war. For his service in the war he was twice mentioned in despatches and appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.
Promoted to colonel, he became a staff officer with the 5th [Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|5th Division] in November 1905 and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1908 Birthday Honours. He was then promoted to temporary brigadier general and went on to become commander of the 12th Armoured [Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|12th Infantry Brigade] in July 1909.
After being raised to major general in March 1912, was made general officer commanding East Anglian Division, a Territorial Force formation, in June 1913.
He led his division at the landing at Suvla Bay in August 1915 during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War and then retired in April 1916.
He was honorary colonel of the East Yorkshire Regiment from 1920 to 1925.