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[[Major-General]] '''Sir Harry Christopher Tytler''' [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]] [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (26 September 1867 – 16 May 1939) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer who specialised in running [[lines of communication]], and also an amateur naturalist.<ref>Obituary, ''[[The Times]]'', 18 May 1939</ref><ref name=www>Biography, ''[[Who Was Who]]''</ref>

Tytler was born in [[Dollar, Clackmannanshire]], the son of Colonel [[Robert Christopher Tytler]], a retired officer of the [[East India Company]] Army and his wife [[Harriet C. Tytler|Harriet]]. He was educated at Mr Frank Townsend's School, Clifton, and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. Leaving as Queen's (India) Cadet, he was commissioned a [[lieutenant]] in the [[Manchester Regiment]] in January 1886<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=25554 |date=29 January 1886|page=444}}</ref><ref>It was normal practice for prospective Indian Army officers first to spend at least a year with a British Army regiment.</ref> and in November 1887 transferred to the Indian Army<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=25786 |date=14 February 1888|page=967}}</ref> and joined the [[17th Infantry]]. He was [[mentioned in despatches]] for his service in the [[Sikkim Expedition]] in 1888, and in the [[Lushai Expedition]] of 1890–1891 he commanded the small force which relieved [[Changsil]]. He was promoted [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in July 1897<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26845 |date=23 April 1897|page=2249}}</ref> and served in the Waziristan Expedition of 1901–1902. He was promoted [[major]] in January 1904.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27679 |date=24 May 1904|page=3354}}</ref>

During the [[World War I|First World War]] he served in the [[East African Campaign (World War I)|East Africa Campaign]], first as deputy inspector-general of the lines of communication, then as [[assistant adjutant-general]] of the lines of communication, and finally as a column commander in the advance from [[Iringa]] and in the [[Lindi]] area.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30611 |date=2 April 1918|page=4109|supp=y}}</ref> He was mentioned in despatches twice and awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO) in July 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30817 |date=26 July 1918|page=8968|supp=y}}</ref> He was promoted [[brevet (military)|brevet]] [[colonel]] in February 1917<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29926 |date=30 January 1917|page=1144|supp=y}}</ref> and substantive colonel in October 1917.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30351 |date=23 October 1917|page=10990|supp=y}}</ref>

From 1918 to 1919 he served as inspector of communications with the [[Bushire Field Force]] in the [[Persian campaign (World War I)|Persian Campaign]], for which he was appointed [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (CMG) in January 1920<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31764 |date=30 January 1920|page=1379|supp=y}}</ref> and again mentioned in despatches. In 1919, as a temporary [[brigadier-general]], he served as inspector-general of the lines of communication in the [[Third Anglo-Afghan War]], being mentioned in despatches for the fifth time<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32288 |date=12 April 1921|page=2900}}</ref> and being appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in August 1920,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32001 |date=30 July 1920|page=8050}}</ref> and then from October 1919 to May 1920,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32719 |date=13 June 1922|page=4479}}</ref> held the same post with the [[Waziristan Field Force]], receiving his sixth mention<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32353 |date=10 June 1921|page=4697|supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32156 |date=7 December 1920|page=12141|supp=y}}</ref> and being appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] (CB) in June 1921.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32353 |date=10 June 1921|page=4693|supp=y}}</ref> He was then given command of the [[Delhi Brigade]] back in India, retaining his temporary rank of brigadier-general and later [[colonel-commandant]]. He was promoted [[major-general]] in September 1920<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32369 |date=24 June 1921|page=5083|supp=y}}</ref> and in 1921 was appointed deputy adjutant and quartermaster-general of the [[Northern Command (India)|Northern Command]]. In 1924 he was appointed [[General Officer Commanding]] [[Burma Independent District]], in which post he served until his retirement in June 1928.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33401 |date=6 June 1928|page=4578}}</ref> He was appointed [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] (KCB) in the [[1927 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33235 |date=31 December 1926|page=3|supp=y}}</ref>

Tytler married Florence Mai Read. They had no children. He took an interest in butterflies and birds and made large collections of eggs and butterflies. He communicated notes on Indian butterflies, especially from [[Assam]], to the ''[[Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society]]''.<ref name=rao>Rao, B R Subba (1998) History of entomology in India. Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Bangalore</ref> He retired to the small village of [[Bromsash]], near [[Ross-on-Wye]], [[Herefordshire]], where he died in 1939.

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