Frederick Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan

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Frederick Lambart
16 October 1865 – 28 August 1946
Field Marshal Lord Cavan
Place of birth	Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire
Place of death	London
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Field Marshal
Commands held	50th (Northumbrian) Division Guards Division XIV Corps
Battles/wars	Second Boer War World War I
Awards	KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE

Field Marshal Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE (16 October 1865 – 28 August 1946) (Field Marshal Lord Cavan) was brought back from retirement at 48 in 1914 and rose to become one of the British Army's more successful commanders during the First World War.

Contents 1 Army career 2 Awards 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links

[edit] Army career

Educated at Eton College, Frederick Lambart was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1885.^[1] He saw action in the Second Boer War in 1900. He was appointed Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in 1908.^[2]

In June, 1915 Cavan was promoted to command of 50th (Northumbrian) Division; a mere two months on he was appointed the first commander of the Guards Division.^[2] In this role, he informed Major Winston Churchill of the latter's attachment to the 2nd Battalion of the Grenadiers in November 1915^[3].

The following January, 1916, Cavan was placed at the head of XIV Corps, a command he held until March, 1918.^[2] In March 1918 Lambart was formally appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces on the Italian Front.^[2]

It was in this capacity that Cavan led the Italian Tenth Army which struck a decisive blow at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, the action that sounded the final death knell of the Austro-Hungarian Army towards the close of the war.

He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) from 1922 to 1926 and was promoted to field marshal in 1931.^[4] He was among the very last representative peers to be elected from Ireland^[5].

[edit] Awards

• Recipient of the Cross of Liberty (Estonia)

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Heathcote, T.A. (1999). The British Field Marshals 1736-1997. Pen & Sword Books Ltd. ISBN 0-85052-696-5

[edit] External links

• The Papers of Field Marshal Lord Cavan
• Frederick Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan (1865-1946), Field Marshal (National Portrait Gallery, 16 portraits)

Military offices
Preceded by Sir Henry Hughes Wilson	Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1922 – 1926	Succeeded by Sir George Milne
Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Kilmorey	Representative peer for Ireland 1915 – 1946	Succeeded by Office Lapsed
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Frederick Lambart	Earl of Cavan 1900 – 1946	Succeeded by Horace Lambart

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