Hurdis Ravenshaw

Hurdis Ravenshaw
BornJune 1869
Died6 June 1920 (aged 50)
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1888–1920
RankMajor-General
UnitEast Yorkshire Regiment,
Devonshire Regiment,
Connaught Rangers
CommandsBritish 83rd Brigade,
British 27th Division
Battles/warsChitral expedition
Malakand
Tirah Campaign
Second Boer War
First World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of St Michael and St George

Major-General Hurdis Secundus Lalande Ravenshaw CMG (June 1869 – c. 6 June 1920) was a senior British Army officer in the First World War who served at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and saw action on the North-West Frontier of India, in South Africa in the Second Boer War and in France and Greece in the First World War. In 1916 a German U-boat captured him, and he was a prisoner of war for the next two years. He died in 1920 in unusual circumstances after becoming lost in the South African bush near Port Elizabeth and succumbing to the elements.