Lionel Dunsterville

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Lionel Dunsterville

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Lionel Charles Dunsterville CB

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a United Kingdom order of chivalry founded by George I of Great Britain on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the medieval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements....
, CSI

Order of the Star of India

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India is an order of chivalry founded by Victoria of the United Kingdom in 1861. The Order includes members of three classes:...
(1865 – 1946) was a British general, who led the so-called Dunsterforce
Dunsterforce

Established in 1917, Dunsterforce was an Allied military mission of under 1,000 Australian, British, Canadian and New Zealand elite troops , accompanied by armoured cars, deployed from Hamadan some 350 km across Greater Iran....
across present-day Iran in an attempt to prevent an invasion of India by a combined Germano-Turkish force.

el Charles Dunsterville went to college with Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai, British India , he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book , Kim , many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King ; and his poems, including Mandalay , Gunga Din , and If? ....
at The United Services College

United Services College

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Lionel Charles Dunsterville went to college with Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

United Services College

United Services College was an English public school for the sons of military officers, located at Westward Ho! near Bideford in North Devon. It was intended to prepare its pupils for military academies, such as Royal Military Academy Sandhurst....
, an educational institution designed to prepare British young men for careers in Her Majesty's Army. He served as the inspiration for the character "Stalky" in Kipling's novel Stalky & Co.

He was commissioned into the British Army infantry in 1884. Later he transferred to the colonial Indian Army

British Indian Army

The Indian Army was the principal army of the British Raj in India during the last half-century before the Partition of India of India in 1947....
and served on the North-West Frontier, in Waziristan

Waziristan

Waziristan is a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering some 11,585 km? . It is part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, considered to be outside the country's four provinces....
and in China.

In the First World War he was initially posted to India. At the end of 1917 he was appointed to lead an Allied force of under 1,000 Australian, British, Canadian and New Zealand elite troops, drawn from the Mesopotamian

Mesopotamian Campaign

The Mesopotamian campaign was a campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I of the World War I fought between Allied Powers represented by the British Empire, mostly troops from the Indian Empire, and Central Powers, mostly of the Ottoman Empire....
and Western

Western Front

Western Front was a term used during the World War I and World War II world war to describe the "contested armed frontier" between lands controlled by Germany to the East and the Allies to the West....
Fronts, accompanied by armoured cars, from Hamadan some 350 km across Qajar Persia

Greater Iran

Greater Iran refers to the regions that have significant Iranian cultural influence. It roughly corresponds to the territory surrounding the Iranian plateau, stretching from the Caucasus to the Indus River, and conform to the historical understanding of the full territory of "Etymology of Iran."...
, trying to prevent a feared (though unlikely) invasion of India by Germany and Ottoman Turkey and to help in establishing an independent Trans-Caucasia. The "Dunsterforce" was turned back by 3,000 Russian revolutionary troops at Enzeli

Bandar-e Anzali

Bandar-e Anzali , known as Bandar-e Pahlavi before the Iranian Revolution, is a harbour town on the Caspian Sea, in the Iranian province of Gilan, close to Rasht....
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Dunsterville was now assigned to occupy the key oil port of Baku

Baku

Baku , sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bak?, is the capital, the largest city, and the largest port of Azerbaijan....
, held by the Centro Caspian Dictatorship. However, Baku had to be abandoned on 14 September 1918 in the face of an onslaught by 14,000 Turkish troops, who took the city

Battle of Baku

The Defense of Baku or Battle of Baku...
the next day. (Baku was regained by the Allies within two months as a result of the Turkish armistice

Armistice of Mudros

The Armistice of Moudros ended the hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I....
.)

Promoted to major-general in 1918, Dunsterville died in 1946.

Lionel Dunsterville

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