About John Walter
Lived 1861 – 1951 (aged 89–90). John Walter was a military officer.
Major-General John McNeill Walter (10 June 1861 – 1951) was a British Indian Army officer.
Military career Educated at Cheltenham College, Walter was commissioned as asecond lieutenant into the 12th Regiment of Foot, later the Suffolk Regiment, on 14 January 1880. He was promoted to lieutenant in November 1880 and transferred in 1886 to the Devonshire Regiment as a captain.
He became Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General in India in May 1896, and saw action with the Tochi Field Force and then at the Relief of Ladysmith in October 1899 during the Second Boer War.
He was promoted to brevet colonel on 1 October 1909.
He became Assistant Adjutant-General in October 1910 and Deputy Adjutant-General at GHQ India in September 1913. and as Major General in charge of Administration at Northern Command, India from 1917 before retiring at the end of the War.
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