Algernon Ransome

Major-General Algernon Lee Ransome, (29 August 1883 – 1969) was a British Army officer.

Military career Algernon Lee Ransome was born in the United States and was privately educated before going to the United Kingdom where, after attending and later graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Dorsetshire Regiment on 19 December 1903. He spent the first few years of his military career serving his regiment's first battalion.

Ransome served with distinction during the First World War. He became commanding officer of the 7th (Service) Battalion, Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) in 1916 and commanded it during the German spring offensive in March 1918. He went on to command the 170th (2/1st North Lancashire) Brigade from September 1918 until the Armistice of 11 November 1918, which ended the war. He later commanded the 10th (Romsey) Battalion of the Hampshire Home Guard from 1942 to 1944. Romsey was where he spent his final years.