Major-General Sir Henry Timson Lukin KCB CMG DSO, 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 Second Boer WarAnglo-Boer War when he was in command of the artillery during the defence of Wepener for which action he was awarded a Distinguished Service OrderDSO.
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- Major-General Sir Henry Timson Lukin KCB CMG DSO, 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 Second Boer WarAnglo-Boer War when he was in command of the artillery during the defence of Wepener for which action he was awarded a Distinguished Service OrderDSO. From 1903 to 1911 he commanded the Cape Mounted Riflemen, from 1904 to 1912 he was Commandant-General of the Cape Colonial Forces and in 1912 Inspector-General of the Permanent Force of the Union of South Africa. Brig Gen Lukin transferred to the new South African National Defence ForceUnion 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), at Delville Wood before being promoted to a divisional command in the British Army. He was knighted for his war service, and retired in 1919. He was the only son of barrister-at-law Robert Henry Lukin of the Inner Temple; Henry or Harry Lukin, as he was usually known, had a sister two years younger and lost his mother when sixteen years old. Henry Lukin did not enter Sandhurst despite a family military tradition. Instead he sailed for South Africa and was commissioned as a lieutenant in HM BengoughBengough's Horse during the Zulu War, and was seriously wounded at Ulundi in 1879.
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- Zulu War Basutoland Gun War Bechuanaland Campaign Anglo-Boer WarDelville Wood
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- First president of the British Empire Service League (SA)
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- Major-General Sir Henry Timson Lukin KCB CMG DSO, 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 Second Boer WarAnglo-Boer War when he was in command of the artillery during the defence of Wepener for which action he was awarded a Distinguished Service OrderDSO.
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