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{{Infobox military person
| name = Sir Alfred Martin
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| birth_date =30 March 1853
| death_date ={{death-date and age|27 October 1926|30 March 1853}}
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| allegiance ={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
| branch =[[British Indian Army|Indian Army]]
| serviceyears =1874-1912
| rank =[[Lieutenant-General]]
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| commands =1st Bn [[5 Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force)|5th Gurkha Rifles]]<br>[[2nd (Rawalpindi) Division]]
| battles =[[Second Anglo-Afghan War]]<br>[[Tirah Campaign]]
|awards =[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]]
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[[Lieutenant-General]] '''Sir Alfred Robert Martin''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} (30 March 1853<ref>January 1924 Indian Army List supplement</ref> – 27 October 1926<ref>Officer Casualties of the Indian Army 1803-1946 by A. J. Farrington</ref>) was a British officer in the [[Indian Army]].

==Military career==
Martin joined the [[Somerset Light Infantry|13th Regiment of Foot]] as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] on 2 December 1874.<ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/MARTIN4.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]</ref> He transferred to Bengal Staff Corps in 1877 and took part in the Jowahi-Afreedees expedition in 1877 and fought at the [[Battle of Kandahar (1880)|Battle of Kandahar]] in September 1880 during the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]].<ref name=lh/> Promoted to [[Captain (BARM)|captain]] on 2 December 1885, he was commanding officer of 1st Battalion [[5 Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force)|5th Gurkha Rifles]] for the Miranzai expedition in 1891, received the [[Brevet (military)|brevet]] rank of [[Major (British Army)|major]] on 1 September 1891, and became Assistant Adjutant General, [[Punjab region|Punjab]] in 1892.<ref name=lh/> He then took part in various expeditions on the [[Military history of the North-West Frontier|North West Frontier]] of India in the 1890s,<ref name=lh/> received the substantive rank of major on 2 December 1894, and the brevet rank of [[Lieutenant-colonel (British Army)|lieutenant-colonel]] on 28 August 1895.<ref>Hart's Army list, 1903</ref> He was appointed Assistant Adjutant General for the [[Tirah Campaign]] in 1897 and then became Deputy Adjutant General, India in 1899, with the rank of [[Colonel (British Army)|colonel]].<ref name=lh/> Promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant-colonel on 2 December 1900, he was in March 1902 appointed Deputy Adjutant General, [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], with the temporary rank of [[Brigadier-general (British Army)|brigadier-general]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27456 |date=22 July 1902 |page=4673 }}</ref> He went on to be a Brigade Commander in India in 1904, [[Adjutant-General (India)|Adjutant-General, India]] in 1906 and General Officer Commanding [[2nd (Rawalpindi) Division]] in 1908 before retiring in September 1912.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28654|page=7690|date=18 October 1912}}</ref>

He was Colonel of the 5th Gurkha Rifles from 28 June 1921 up to his death.<ref>Indian Army List April 1923</ref>

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