Richard Pope-Hennessy

Richard Pope-Hennessy
Richard Pope-Hennessy in 1927
Born18 August 1875
London, England, United Kingdom
Died1 March 1942 (aged 66)
London, England United Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
RankMajor-General
Commands4th Battalion, King's African Rifles
1st Bn, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
50th (Northumbrian) Division
Known forSotik Massacre
Battles / warsSecond Boer War
First World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order

Major-General Ladislaus Herbert Richard Pope-Hennessy CB DSO (18 August 1875 – 1 March 1942) was a British Army officer of Irish Catholic descent who served in both the Second Boer War and First World War.[1] In 1905, he led a punitive expedition which resulted in the killings of 1,850 men, women and children of the Kipsigis tribe.

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