Herbert Garland

Military Officer, Military Person

1880 – 1921

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Who was Herbert Garland?

Major Herbert Garland OBE, MC, FCS, M. Inst. Metals. was a British metallurgist and army officer. A pre-war Army Ordnance Corps member, he was stationed on Guernsey in 1906 where he wrote a novel, Diverse Affections: a Romance of Guernsey. Garland rose to become Superintendent of Laboratories at the Cairo Citadel, Egypt by 1913 and received a grant from the Chemical Society, of which he was a fellow, to conduct research into ancient Egyptian alloys. The outbreak of war saw him commissioned as a Special List officer with the Arab Bureau. Garland developed explosives for the army, including the Garland grenade and was, in September 1916, assigned to train TE Lawrence and the fighters of the Arab Revolt in explosives. His mines were used against the Hejaz Railway and may have been involved in the first ever derailing of a moving train by explosives. Garland commanded the desperate defence of Yanbu in which he forced an attacking superior Ottoman force to withdraw with almost no bloodshed.

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Born
1880
Sheffield
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Lived in
  • Sheffield
Died
Apr 2, 1921
England

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on July 23, 2013

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