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| rdfs:comment | - Brigadier general Arthur George Preston McNalty (1871-1958), was a seasoned British Army field commander of both the Second Anglo-Boer War and the First World War. In the Second Boer War (1899-1902), he received the Queen's South Africa Medal (campaign medal) with 5 battle clasps. McNalty served thereafter with the British Army of Occupation in Egypt from 1911–1914. Arthur McNalty served, finally, from 1914-1919 during WWI in Egypt, Turkey (during the Dardanelles Campaign or Battle of Gallipoli) and France, where during he had 6 combat despatches and completed his service as a Brigadier General or Brigadier (in field command, a commander of a brigade or three battalions, that is approximately 3000 troops). In France, Arthur McNalty was severely wounded. McNalty, subsequently, acted as Dire
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| abstract | - Brigadier general Arthur George Preston McNalty (1871-1958), was a seasoned British Army field commander of both the Second Anglo-Boer War and the First World War. In the Second Boer War (1899-1902), he received the Queen's South Africa Medal (campaign medal) with 5 battle clasps. McNalty served thereafter with the British Army of Occupation in Egypt from 1911–1914. Arthur McNalty served, finally, from 1914-1919 during WWI in Egypt, Turkey (during the Dardanelles Campaign or Battle of Gallipoli) and France, where during he had 6 combat despatches and completed his service as a Brigadier General or Brigadier (in field command, a commander of a brigade or three battalions, that is approximately 3000 troops). In France, Arthur McNalty was severely wounded. McNalty, subsequently, acted as Director General of grave registrations and enquiries from 1919 and until his retirement from service in the British Armed Forces in 1920. Arthur McNalty married into the British peerage, that is to Margaret Maude de Windt, in 1905 but was divorced there from in 1921 with the couple bearing 2 peer children, who are Frances Joy St. George McNalty (b. 1907) and Peter Geoffrey Bourchier McNalty (b. 1909).
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