Herbert Raitt

Major-General Sir Herbert Aveling Raitt, (August 1858 – 8 November 1935) was a senior British Army officer.

Military career Raitt was commissioned into the 80th Regiment of Foot (later South Staffordshire Regiment) on 27 March 1878, and saw action in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879, following which he was promoted to lieutenant on 9 July 1897. He was promoted to captain on 26 January 1884, and served in the Bechuanaland Expedition under Sir Charles Warren in 1885, commanding a troop of the 3rd Mounted Rifles (Diamond Fields Horse). Promotion to major on 12 February 1896.

Raitt was appointed 2nd in command of the 1st Battalion the South Staffordshire Regiment on 10 March 1900, and left Southampton later the same month on the SS Briton to take command of the battalion for service in South Africa during the Second Boer War. before being promoted to major general in September 1912 and sent out to India as commander of the Mandalay Brigade in May 1913.