Arthur Daly (British Army officer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British Army general
Date of Birth: 14-May-1871
Date of Death: 28-Aug-1936
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: South Africa
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Arthur Daly (British Army officer)
- Major-General Arthur Crawford Daly, (14 May 1871 – 28 August 1936) was a senior British Army officer. Daly was the eighth child and youngest son of General Sir Henry Dermot Daly and Susan Kirkpatrick, and the brother of Hugh Daly.
- He was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, prior to being commissioned into the Welch Regiment in 1890.
- He was subsequently transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment, was promoted to lieutenant on 7 March 1892, and then to captain on 15 February 1899.
- Appointed adjutant of the 2nd battalion on 15 February 1898, he first saw active service in the Second Boer War, during which he was severely wounded during action in Natal.
- He was reported seriously ill with enteric fever near Pietermaritzburg in March 1900, but recovered, was mentioned in despatches (dated 8 April 1902), and received a brevet promotion as major in the South African Honours list published on 26 June 1902.
- Following the end of the war in June 1902, he left Cape Town on the SS Sicilia and returned to Southampton in late July, where he went back as a regular officer in his regiment.After the outbreak of the First World War, Daly became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General of the IV Corps in October 1914.
- He was Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General of the 7th Division between 1914 and 1915.
- He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1915, was given his first brigade command, the 6th Brigade, the same year.
- He then commanded the 33rd Infantry Brigade between February and September 1917, when he was made commander of the 24th Division.
- He held this post until the division was disbanded in 1919.
- Daly was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1918 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1919.
- He was Inspector-General and Military Advisor to Minister of Defence in Iraq between 1925 and 1927, and retired from the army in 1928. Daly married Grace Wilkinson, the daughter of Major H.
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- Wilkinson, in 1897.
- Together they had two children.
- Daly's son was Air Vice-Marshal George Dermot Daly (1898–1974).
- Daly died in Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1936.
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