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Royal Engineers Major Nanton was born in 1863 and joined the Royal Engineers in 1885 as a lieutenant. He served in the North Western Territories of Canada before joining the Lushai Expedition of 1888-1889. He served with the Relief Force in Chitral in 1895 and was Mentioned in Despatches for his services in the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 as Deputy Assistant Director of Railways. He then served as Deputy Director of Military Works India from 1910 and was made brigadier general in September 1914. He served in France as Chief Engineer of the Indian Corps and was made Temporary Major General and Chief Engineer of the 3rd Army in 1917. He was briefly admitted to hospital in 1917 suffering from influenza. He was ordered to proceed to England to report to the Military Secretary, India Office in November 1917 and sailed to India in December 1917. He retired from the Army at the age of 57 and died in British Columbia in 1935 at the age of 71. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.
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