Division on home service in November 1918. Through the war, he was mentioned in despatches eight times, as well as knighted. After the war He retired from the army in August 1919; he later served as the honorary colonel of the 1st/7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, a TF unit that formed part of the 48th Division. He died in 1946, aged eighty-three, after falling from his horse, and is buried near Oxford. References References "FANSHAWE, Maj.-Gen. Sir Robert", in Obituary notice in The Times, 26 August 1946, p. 7 |- 1863 births 1946 deaths British Army major generals Burials in Oxfordshire British Army generals of World War I Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath British military personnel of the Tirah campaign Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers British Army personnel of the Second Boer War