- North-West Frontier , India, 1897-1898
- --- Operations Of The Malakand Field Force
- China, 1900
- East Africa, 1902-1904
- --- Operations In Somaliland
- World War I , 1914-1918
- ---Staff officer to General William Birdwood , Australian And New Zealand Army Corps , Gallipoli , 1915
--Mentioned in dispatches with regard to reinforcing Anzac Cove , in full view and reach of the enemy, prior to the Battle Of Sari Bair . ''"The preparation of the ambush was treated as a simple matter by the services therein engaged, and yet I much doubt whether any more pregnant enterprise than this of landing so large a force under the very eyes of the enemy, and of keeping them concealed there three days, is recorded in the annals of war."'' — General Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton
--Awarded CMG and French Croix De Guerre
- ---Director of Military Operations, India AHQ, 1916
- ---Deputy Chief of General Staff, Indian Army , 1917
- Major General, Indian Army 1918
- Third Anglo-Afghan War , 1919
- ---Commander, 3 ( Abbottabad ) Indian Infantry Bde
- ---Commander, Kohat Kurram Force
- Waziristan , North-West Frontier, India 1919-1920
- ---Commander, Tochi and Derajat Columns, India 1919-1920
- Commander, Kohat District, Northern Command, India 1921-1922
- Commander, Peshawar District, India 1922-1923
- General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, India 1923-1924
- Chief of General Staff, Indian Army 1924-1928
- Retired 1929
''Sources'': Liddell Hart Centre For Military Archives , London Gazette
- Skeen, Gen Sir A., ''Passing It On: Short Talks on Tribal Fighting on the Northwest Frontier of India'', 4th ed (Gale & Polden, 1939). The 4th edition has an additional chapter (by Maj D.B. Mackenzie) on lessons learned from Waziristan 1937.
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