Henry Lukin

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Major-General Sir Henry Lukin KCB CMG DSO (1860-1925) was a South African military commander. He fought in the Zulu War (1879) and the Basutoland Gun War (1880-1881), the Bechuanaland Campaign (1897), and the Anglo-Boer War. From 1903 to 1911 he commanded the Cape Mounted Riflemen, and from 1904 to 1912, he was Commandant-General of the Cape Colonial Forces.

Brig Gen Lukin transferred to the new Union Defence Forces in 1912 as Inspector-General of the Permanent Force. He commanded a formation in the German South West Africa Campaign (1914-1915), and commanded the 1st South African Infantry Brigade of the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force in Egypt (1916) and France (1916), before being promoted to a divisional command in the British Army. He was knighted for his war service, and retired in 1919.

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Militaria - Official Professional Journal of the SADF (Vol 12/2: 1982)

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