Herman Landon
Military Person
1859 – 1948
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Who was Herman Landon?
Major-General Herman James Shelley Landon, CB, CMG, was a British Army officer. During the Boer War he commanded a battalion, and was promoted in the interwar period to take command of a brigade in the British Expeditionary Force. He commanded the brigade during the early fighting on the Western Front in the First World War, and succeeded to the command of 1st Infantry Division when his commanding officer was killed at the First Battle of Ypres; he later commanded four more New Army divisions during the war.
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- Born
- Aug 23, 1859
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Harrow School
- Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
- Died
- Oct 16, 1948
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on July 23, 2013
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