Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-20 | Page 4 | General Maude is Claimed by Death

GENERAL li IS mMMi DEATH British Commander in Mesopotamia Mes-opotamia Dies After ! Short Illness. LONDON. Nov. 19. General Maude. British commander in Mesopotamia, died yesterday. An official announcement today says General Maude died in Mesopotamia yesterday yes-terday evening, after a brief illness. Major General Frederick Stanley Maude, the captor of Bagdad, was rated as one of the most brilliant commanders of the war. After a series of British defeats in Mesopotamia, General Maude was placed in f-ommand last year and won an unbroken un-broken series of successes. Advancing from the liab Ionian plains, he cupt ured Kut-el-Amara, where General Tow n-shend's n-shend's army had been compelled t6 surrender. sur-render. Ho continued his drive up the Tigris, -advancing ninety miles in to weeks, and last March captured Uasda.d. With the opening of tlie new campaign this fall he pushed up the Tigris more than 100 miles beyond Batidad, his operations opera-tions being designed primarily to defeat the expected attempt of the Germans and Turks to recapture tho cily. General Maude was 53 years of ase. He had a distinguished military record before tlie war. Me took part In tlie 1 Sudan military campaign In 1885 and received re-ceived the medal with clasp and the khe-dive's khe-dive's star. He served with distinction In the 'South African war, where he won the distinguished service order and the queen's medal with six clasps. Prior lo taking command in Mesopotamia. Mesopo-tamia. General Maude saw service In France, where he was wounded. He was mentioned five times in the dispatches and made a commander rtf the Hath. , From 1901 to 1004 he was military 'sec- i retary to the governor general of Can- i ada and later private secretary to the sec- I retary of state for wa--. LONDON, Nov. 19. Premier Llovd George, in announcing General Maude's death to the house of commons todav characterized him as "a great leader of men and a commander of the first rank," The premier briefly reviewed General Maude's career and told of the difficul- I ties he overcame, which resulted in the capture of Hagdad and other successes I in Mesopotamia. "Now, in his hour of triumph." said Ithe premier, "he is stricken down bv fell disease.- The country mourns the losa of one of its most valiant sons."