John Burnett-Stuart

General Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart, (14 March 1875 – 6 October 1958) was a British Army general in the 1920s and 1930s.

Military career Educated at Repton School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, John Burnett-Stuart was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) as a second-lieutenant on 6 March 1895. He was promoted to lieutenant on 26 July 1897, and saw service on the North-West Frontier of India between 1897 and 1898.

He was promoted to brevet major in July 1911, while serving as a GSO1 with the New Zealand Military Forces and while holding the local rank of lieutenant colonel.

Burnett-Stuart, promoted in August 1914 to temporary lieutenant colonel, served in the First World War as a General Staff Officer in the British Expeditionary Force, rising to become Deputy Adjutant General at General Headquarters for the British Armies in France in 1917.

After the war, in June 1919, he was promoted to substantive major general. and was appointed General Officer Commanding Madras District in India where he was involved in the suppression of the Moplah Rebellion at Malabar between 1921 and 1922.

Burnett-Stuart returned to the United Kingdom and became Director of Military Operations and Intelligence at the War Office in September 1922, taking over from Major General Sir William Thwaites, and then General Officer Commanding 3rd Division, taking over from Lieutenant General Sir William Heneker in July 1926. In 1927 he directed exercises by an experimental Mechanised force on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. and was appointed GOC British Troops in Egypt in June 1931 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Command in 1934: he retired in 1938. and was Deputy Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire.