INDENTBrigadier General Edward Boustead Cuthbertson, C.M.G., O.B.E., M.V.O. (1880-1942), entered the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as a Second Lieutenant, 1899; served with the 1st Battalion during the South African War, 1899-1902 and took part in the advance on Kimberley and the engagements at Magersfontein, Koodoosberg, Paardeburg, Poplar Grove, Waterval Drift, Houtnek, Bloemburg, Roodeport and Heilbron; present during operations in the Transvaal under Major General Hamilton and was appointed Station Staff Officer in the Cape Colony, May 1902; retired 1908; Equerry to Princess Beatrice, 1908-1914 (M.V.O. 1914); served as Major with the Isle of Wight Rifles and as Lieutenant Colonel, commanding the 2nd Monmouthshire Regiment; took part in the Great War, 1914-18 (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette, 17.2.1915. and 1.1.1916.; C.M.G., 1915; Order of St. Stanislaus, Third Class with swords); Brigadier General 1916; High Sherrif of Hampshire, 1928; served with the Home Guard during the Second World War (O.B.E., London Gazette, 11.6.1942.).