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[[Major-General]] '''Hugh Edward Herdon''' [[Order of the Bath|CB]] [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] (28 October 1871 – 11 March 1958) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer.<ref>''[[Who Was Who]]''</ref>

Herdon was educated at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]], as a Queen's India Cadet and was commissioned [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Wiltshire Regiment]] in July 1892.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26306 |date=12 July 1892|page=4009}}</ref><ref>It was normal practice for prospective Indian Army officers to first spend at least a year with a British regiment.</ref> He was promoted [[lieutenant]] in August 1894,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26559 |date=9 October 1894|page=5687}}</ref> transferred to the Indian Army in December 1896<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26978 |date=17 June 1898|page=3702}}</ref> and joined the [[55th Coke's Rifles]]. He served in the [[Tirah Expedition]] in 1897–1898 and on the [[North-West Frontier (military history)|North-West Frontier]] in 1901–1902. He was promoted [[Captain (OF-2)|captain]] in 1901<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27414 |date=7 March 1902|page=1668}}</ref> and [[major]] in July 1910<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28412 |date=2 September 1910|page=6337}}</ref> and served as a [[brigade major]] from November 1908<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28236 |date=26 March 1909|page=2356}}</ref> and as a deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general from 6 August 1914 to 16 March 1915 and 30 December 1915 to 8 January 1916, a general staff officer grade 2 from 17 March 1915 to 29 December 1915 and 27 March to 9 July 1917, deputy assistant adjutant-general from 9 to 27 January 1916, and assistant quartermaster-general from 10 July 1917 to 17 February 1918.

As a [[lieutenant-colonel]], he served with the [[Bushire Field Force]] in [[Persia]] in 1919, for which he was [[mentioned in despatches]] and appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in January 1920,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31764 |date=30 January 1920|page=1379|supp=y}}</ref> and also served in the [[Third Anglo-Afghan War]] in 1919, for which he was promoted [[brevet (military)|brevet]] [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] in January 1920,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32001 |date=30 July 1920|page=8052|supp=y}}</ref> and in [[Waziristan campaign (1919–1920)|Waziristan]] in 1919–1920, for which he was again mentioned in despatches.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32353 |date=10 June 1921|page=4698|supp=y}}</ref> He was promoted substantive colonel in March 1922.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32825 |date=22 May 1923|page=3613}}</ref>

He was promoted temporary [[colonel-commandant]] in May 1922<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32745 |date=8 September 1922|page=6512}}</ref> and commanded the [[13th Indian Infantry Brigade]] from June 1923<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32862 |date=14 September 1923|page=6203}}</ref> to May 1926,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33187 |date=30 July 1926|page=5041}}</ref> and served in Waziristan in 1922–1923, for which he was appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] (CB) in May 1924.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32940 |date=30 May 1924|page=4300}}</ref> He was promoted [[major-general]] in November 1926<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33263 |date=5 April 1927|page=2213}}</ref> and was [[General Officer Commanding]] [[Waziristan District]] from November 1927<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33355 |date=10 February 1928|page=956}}</ref> to November 1931, when he retired.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33777 |date=4 December 1931|page=7819}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33800 |date=19 February 1932|page=1131}}</ref>

Herdon served as colonel of the 1st (Coke's) Battalion, [[13th Frontier Force Rifles]], the successor to his old regiment, from May 1933<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33939 |date=12 May 1933|page=3207}}</ref> to September 1945.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37278 |date=21 September 1945|page=4709}}</ref> He was married to Laura. Their only son, Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Owen Seymour (Hoss) Herdon, was killed in action in [[Normandy landings|Normandy]] on 7 June 1944 while commanding the 2nd Battalion, [[Royal Warwickshire Regiment]], aged 38.<ref>Obituary, ''[[The Times]]'', 16 June 1944</ref> He is buried in La Délivrande War Cemetery in [[Douvres-la-Délivrande]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://twgpp.org/information.php?id=2295152|title=Photograph of tombstone}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

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