Walter Leslie

General Sir Walter Stewart Leslie, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO (23 March 1876 – 9 August 1947) was a Scottish officer who served in the British Indian Army.

Early life and education Leslie was born in Edinburgh, the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Young Leslie, of Kininvie House, Banffshire, and Alice Louisa Cautley. He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Military career Leslie was commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment in February 1896 and took part in the Siege of Malakand in July 1897 before transferring to the Indian army and the 40th Pathans in September 1898 and then again to the 31st Punjabis in December 1900. He served in World War I and then subsequently in the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919.