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scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1875-03-14</span>)</span>14 March 1875<br /><a href="/wiki/Cirencester" title="Cirencester">Cirencester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">6 October 1958<span style="display:none">(1958-10-06)</span> (aged 83)<br /><a href="/wiki/Avington_Park" title="Avington Park">Avington Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winchester" title="Winchester">Winchester</a>, Hampshire, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Service <wbr />/ branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British 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title="Aberdeenshire">Aberdeenshire</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/General_(United_Kingdom)" title="General (United Kingdom)">General</a> <b>Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath">GCB</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire">KBE</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George">CMG</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Order" title="Distinguished Service Order">DSO</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Deputy_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Lieutenant">DL</a></span></span> (14 March 1875 – 6 October 1958) was a <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> general in the 1920s and 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-times_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_career">Military career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Burnett-Stuart&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Educated at <a href="/wiki/Repton_School" title="Repton School">Repton School</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Military_College,_Sandhurst" title="Royal Military College, Sandhurst">Royal Military College, Sandhurst</a>, John Burnett-Stuart was <a href="/wiki/Officer_(armed_forces)" title="Officer (armed forces)">commissioned</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Rifle_Brigade_(The_Prince_Consort%27s_Own)" title="Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)">Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Second-lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Second-lieutenant">second-lieutenant</a> on 6 March 1895.<sup id="cite_ref-lh_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lh-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)">lieutenant</a> on 26 July 1897,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and saw service on the <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_North-West_Frontier" title="Military history of the North-West Frontier">North-West Frontier</a> of India between 1897 and 1898.<sup id="cite_ref-lh_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lh-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also served in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a> in South Africa between 1899 and 1902, during which he was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Captain_(BARM)" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain (BARM)">captain</a> on 20 February 1901, and awarded the <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Order" title="Distinguished Service Order">Distinguished Service Order</a> in 1900.<sup id="cite_ref-lh_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lh-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the end of the war in June 1902, Burnett-Stuart returned to the United Kingdom on the SS <i>Orotava</i> which arrived at Southampton in early September.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Burnett-Stuart served in the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> as a <a href="/wiki/General_Staff_Officer" class="mw-redirect" title="General Staff Officer">General Staff Officer</a> in the <a href="/wiki/British_Expeditionary_Force_(World_War_I)" title="British Expeditionary Force (World War I)">British Expeditionary Force</a>, rising to become Deputy Adjutant General at General Headquarters for the British Armies in France in 1917.<sup id="cite_ref-lh_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lh-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was appointed a Companion of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath" title="Order of the Bath">Order of the Bath</a> in January 1917.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the war, in 1919, he was appointed <a href="/wiki/General_Officer_Commanding" class="mw-redirect" title="General Officer Commanding">General Officer Commanding</a> <a href="/wiki/Madras" class="mw-redirect" title="Madras">Madras</a> District in India where he was involved in the suppression of the <a href="/wiki/Moplah_Rebellion" class="mw-redirect" title="Moplah Rebellion">Moplah Rebellion</a> at <a href="/wiki/Malabar_(Northern_Kerala)" class="mw-redirect" title="Malabar (Northern Kerala)">Malabar</a> between 1921 and 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-lh_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lh-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The riots that he quashed were inspired by 10,000 <a href="/wiki/Guerrilla" class="mw-redirect" title="Guerrilla">guerrillas</a> and led to 2,300 <a href="/wiki/Execution" class="mw-redirect" title="Execution">executions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Burnett-Stuart returned to the United Kingdom and became <a href="/wiki/Directorate_of_Military_Intelligence_(United_Kingdom)" title="Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom)">Director of Military Operations and Intelligence</a> at the <a href="/wiki/War_Office" title="War Office">War Office</a> in 1923 and then General Officer Commanding <a href="/wiki/3rd_Mechanised_Division_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd Mechanised Division (United Kingdom)">3rd Division</a> in 1926.<sup id="cite_ref-lh_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lh-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1927 he directed exercises by an experimental <a href="/wiki/Mechanised_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Mechanised force">Mechanised force</a> on <a href="/wiki/Salisbury_Plain" title="Salisbury Plain">Salisbury Plain</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wiltshire" title="Wiltshire">Wiltshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lh_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lh-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was appointed General Officer Commanding the <a href="/wiki/British_Troops_in_Egypt" title="British Troops in Egypt">British Troops in Egypt</a> in 1931 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of <a href="/wiki/Southern_Command_(United_Kingdom)" title="Southern Command (United Kingdom)">Southern Command</a> in 1934: he retired in 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-lh_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lh-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Burnett-Stuart was also <a href="/wiki/Aide-de-Camp_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Aide-de-Camp General">Aide-de-Camp General</a> to <a href="/wiki/George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George V of the United Kingdom">King George V</a> from 1935 to 1938 and <a href="/wiki/Colonel_Commandant" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonel Commandant">Colonel Commandant</a> of 1st Battalion <a href="/wiki/Rifle_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="Rifle Brigade">Rifle Brigade</a> from 1936 to 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-lh_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lh-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He commanded the 1st Aberdeen Battalion of the <a href="/wiki/Home_Guard_(United_Kingdom)" title="Home Guard (United Kingdom)">Home Guard</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Lieutenant">Deputy Lieutenant</a> for <a href="/wiki/Aberdeenshire" title="Aberdeenshire">Aberdeenshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lh_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lh-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Burnett-Stuart&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>To Change an Army: General Sir John Burnett-Stuart and British Armoured Doctrine, 1927–38</i> By Harold R Winton, Elsevier, 1988, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-08-036270-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-08-036270-0">978-0-08-036270-0</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Burnett-Stuart&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-times-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-times_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Obituary: Gen. Burnett-Stuart". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>. 8 October 1958. p. 13.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Times&rft.atitle=Obituary%3A+Gen.+Burnett-Stuart&rft.pages=13&rft.date=1958-10-08&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Burnett-Stuart" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lh-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-lh_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lh_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lh_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lh_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lh_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lh_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lh_2-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lh_2-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lh_2-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lh_2-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/a-e/bu50-001">Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart</a> Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hart's Army list, 1903</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"The Army in South Africa – Troops returning home". <i>The Times</i>. 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London. 28 August 1902. p. 9.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Times&rft.atitle=The+Army+in+South+Africa+%E2%80%93+Troops+returning+home&rft.issue=36858&rft.pages=p.-9&rft.date=1902-08-28&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Burnett-Stuart" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGazette29886" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29886/supplement/2">"No. 29886"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i> (Supplement). 29 December 1916. p. 2.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+29886&rft.pages=2&rft.date=1916-12-29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F29886%2Fsupplement%2F2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Burnett-Stuart" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ucd.ie/news/2009/05MAY09/290509_war.html">University College, Dublin</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">MacKenzie, S.P. (1995), <i>The Home Guard: A Military and Political History</i>. Oxford University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-820577-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-820577-5">0-19-820577-5</a> (p. 183)</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #CF9C65;">Military offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/William_Thwaites" title="William Thwaites">Sir William Thwaites</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Directorate_of_Military_Intelligence_(United_Kingdom)" title="Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom)">Director of Military Operations and Intelligence</a> 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