Milo George Talbot | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Milo_Talbot_Carter.jpeg) Portrait of Lt. Col. Talbot, which hangs in Malahide Castle in the north of County Dublin. | |
| Born | 14 September 1854 Malahide, Ireland |
| Died | 3 September 1931 (aged 76) Patrixbourne, Kent, England |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service | British Army Egyptian Army (secondment) |
| Years of service | 1873–1916 |
| Rank | Lieutenant colonel (British Army) Major general (Egyptian Army) |
| Unit | Royal Engineers |
| Battles / wars | Second Anglo-Afghan War Mahdist War First World War |
| Awards | Order of the Bath Order of Osmanieh (3rd Class) Order of the Medjidie (2nd Class) |
Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. Milo George Talbot (14 September 1854 – 3 September 1931), CB, was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and a British Army officer. The fourth son of the 4th Baron Talbot of Malahide, he was born into an Anglo-Irish family and attended Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, before being commissioned as an officer in the British Army's Royal Engineers. He played a single match of first-class cricket as a young man for the Gentlemen of the South against the Players of the North. Talbot served on the staff of General Ross during the Second Anglo-Afghan War and remained in that country as a member of the Afghan Boundary Commission. He returned to Britain as a staff officer before returning to active duty during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of the Sudan. During this time, he was present at the Battle of Omdurman in September 1898 and served on secondment to the Egyptian Army as a Major-General. Talbot retired in 1905, but was recalled to duty during the First World War, when he gave advice on plans for the Gallipoli Campaign and the defence of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.