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Nevill Smyth
Major-General Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, VC, KCB (14 August 1868 – 21 July 1941) was a senior officer in the British Army and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Born the son of Warington Wilkinson Smyth, a noted geologist, his grandfather was Admiral William Henry Smyth. His father's sister, Henrietta Grace Powell, was Robert Baden-Powell's mother, making Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement, Smyth's first cousin.
Smyth was educated at Westminster School and graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1888. He was posted to the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) in India as a second lieutenant on 22 August 1888. In 1890 he was attached to the Royal Engineers to assist with a railway survey during the Zhob Valley expedition.
In 1895 Smyth was stationed in Cairo with his regiment, being promoted lieutenant on 26 April of that year. From December 1895 until March 1896 he was attached to Theodore Bent’s explorations in the Northern Sudan, being “kindly attached to our expedition by Colonel Sir F. Wingate…” For his services in the initial stages of the Mahdist War he was mentioned in despatches on 3 November 1896, and awarded the Order of the Medjidieh, Fourth Class in 1897.
Smyth was promoted captain on 8 December 1897. On 2 September came the Battle of Omdurman. Near to the end of the battle, a dervish tried to spear two war correspondents; Smyth galloped forward and, though severely speared through the arm, shot the man dead. This action saw him awarded the Victoria Cross. The citation was gazetted on 15 November 1898, and read:
War Office, November 15, 1898.
THE Queen has been graciously pleased to signify Her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned Officers and Private Soldier, whose claims have been submitted for Her Majesty's approval, for their conspicuous bravery during the recent operations in the Soudan, [sic] as recorded against their names:—
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Nevill Smyth
Major-General Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, VC, KCB (14 August 1868 – 21 July 1941) was a senior officer in the British Army and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Born the son of Warington Wilkinson Smyth, a noted geologist, his grandfather was Admiral William Henry Smyth. His father's sister, Henrietta Grace Powell, was Robert Baden-Powell's mother, making Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement, Smyth's first cousin.
Smyth was educated at Westminster School and graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1888. He was posted to the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) in India as a second lieutenant on 22 August 1888. In 1890 he was attached to the Royal Engineers to assist with a railway survey during the Zhob Valley expedition.
In 1895 Smyth was stationed in Cairo with his regiment, being promoted lieutenant on 26 April of that year. From December 1895 until March 1896 he was attached to Theodore Bent’s explorations in the Northern Sudan, being “kindly attached to our expedition by Colonel Sir F. Wingate…” For his services in the initial stages of the Mahdist War he was mentioned in despatches on 3 November 1896, and awarded the Order of the Medjidieh, Fourth Class in 1897.
Smyth was promoted captain on 8 December 1897. On 2 September came the Battle of Omdurman. Near to the end of the battle, a dervish tried to spear two war correspondents; Smyth galloped forward and, though severely speared through the arm, shot the man dead. This action saw him awarded the Victoria Cross. The citation was gazetted on 15 November 1898, and read:
War Office, November 15, 1898.
THE Queen has been graciously pleased to signify Her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned Officers and Private Soldier, whose claims have been submitted for Her Majesty's approval, for their conspicuous bravery during the recent operations in the Soudan, [sic] as recorded against their names:—
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