Major Hugh Gerald Brenan

UK, Military Campaign Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1949

• Name: H G Brenan
• Campaign or Service: South Africa - Second Boer War
• Service Date: 1899-1902
• Service Location: South Africa
• Regiment or Unit Name: 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles

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UK Army List 1911

• First Name: H G
• Surname: Brenan
• Nationality: British
• Information: Late Half Pay.
• Further Information: Officer serving with Militia, Territorial Army, Supplementary Reserve, Oversea Forces (Execpt Union of South Africa Defence Forces), or holding a temporary commission, who had service in any of the several theatres of war overseas. [The entry of this symbol is made as such Officers are not shown in the Gradation List of the Half-Yearly Army List],
• Rank: Captain
• Service: British Army
• Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles
• Battalion: Reserve of Officers
• Seniority Date: 26/02/1900

UK Army List 1914

• First Name: H G
• Surname: Brenan
• Nationality: British
• Information: Substantive. Late Half Pay
• Rank: Captain
• Service: British Army
• Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles
• Battalion: Reserve of Officers
• Seniority Date: 26/02/1900

UK Army List 1918

• First Name: H G
• Surname: Brenan
• Nationality: British
• Information: Late half pay. Honorary Major Retired Territorial Force.
• Rank: Captain
• Service: British Army
• Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles
• Battalion: Reserve of Officers
• Seniority Date: 27/02/1900
  

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British Army Service Records

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• First name(s) Hugh Gerald
• Last name Brenan
• Rank Major
• Regiment The Royal Irish Rifles
• Year 1903-47
• Archive The National Archives
• Archive reference WO 374/8792
• Series WO 374
• Series description WO 374 - Officers' Services, First World War, personal files

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Bertrand Russell and Gamel Woolsey by Kenneth Hopkins

"...was a subaltern in the British Army who advanced to the rank of major at the time of his retirement. Gerald and his father waged a running battle over the years, and Russell more than once remarks in his letters how much he enjoys Gerald's account of his father and their differences, which were somewhat on the scale ofSamuel Butler's similar incompatibility with his father, as recorded in The Way of All Flesh."
"...the 1914 war broke

out. Major Brenan thankfully secured for his son a commission in the Gloucester Regiment, and Gerald departed, for once perhaps with his father's blessing. He served with distinction, was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry, and returned home at the end to quarrel with his father over the future. Major Brenan had found Gerald a place in the Indian Army, but Gerald said No--one can understand that; who, on leaving one army after four years of desperate fighting, ever wanted to join another? Instead, he went to Spain, where he remained, with occa- sional absence, for the rest of his life."

1939 Register

98 Evesham Road , Cheltenham M.B., Gloucestershire, England

• Hugh G Brenan 29 Sep 1870 Male Major Army Retired Widowed 352 1
• Mary A K Webb 11 Jun 1871 Female Cook Single 352 2

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