John Hunter

Major-General John Gunning Hunter (1 November 1859 – 11 June 1926) was a British Indian Army officer who commanded the 35th Division on an acting basis during the First World War.

Military career Educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Hunter was commissioned into the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot on 1 May 1878. He transferred to the British Indian Army and, after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War from 1878 to 1880, commanded the 7th Battalion, Jat Regiment. and, during that period, briefly commanded the 35th Division on an acting basis from 1 July 1915 to 5 July 1915. He was promoted to major-general under special appointment to the War Office in September 1917.