Thomas Humphreys

Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Thomas Humphreys, (5 November 1878 – 15 January 1955) was a British Army officer who commanded the 5th Division from 1931 to 1934.

Early life and education Humphreys was born in Dover, Kent, the son of Thomas Humphreys and Jeannette Napoli Cotman. He was educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 April 1899. He served in the 2nd Battalion, which was posted to South Africa in December 1899 after the outbreak of the Second Boer War. In South Africa he was adjutant of the Mounted Infantry Battalion, and was promoted to captain on 5 October 1901. He joined other officers and men of the battalion who left Cape Town on the SS Britannic in October that year, and was stationed at Aldershot after their return.

Humphreys served in the First World War in France and then with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, latterly as a brigade commander. before being appointed deputy director of military operations and intelligence at the War Office in 1925. and went on to be commandant of the Staff College, Quetta, in India in 1928 and General Officer Commanding 5th Division in 1931 before retiring in 1937.