Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Arthur Fanshawe, (4 April 1859 – 13 November 1952) was a British Army general of the First World War, who commanded the 11th (Northern) Division at Gallipoli and the V Corps on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme, the Third Battle of Ypres, and the 1918 German spring offensive. He was the second eldest of three brothers who rose to command divisions or corps during the war. Background and family Fanshawe was born in 1859, the son of the Reverend Henry Leighton Fanshawe, of Chilworth, Oxfordshire. He attended Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, then joined the Royal Artillery in 1878. He was the eldest of three brothers with significant military careers; Hew (b. 1860) joined the cavalry and Robert (b. 1863) joined the infantry, all three rising to command corps or divisions during the First World War. He married Rose Higginson, daughter of Sir James Higginson, in 1893; they had three sons. Early career Fanshawe was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 31 January 1878. He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878-80 and the Sudan expedition of 1885, following which he was promoted to captain on 17 March 1886. After promotion to major on 5 March 1896, he was in charge of a battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) during the Second Boer War. He stayed in South Africa until after the end of this war, and in November 1902 left Port Natal on the SS Ortona with the O Battery RHA, bound for Lucknow in the Bengal Presidency. Rising steadily through the ranks, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1903, and colonel in 1908. In 1909 he was appointed to command the artillery in one of the regular divisions garrisoned in Ireland; whilst serving there, he was personally commended by the King for saving an artilleryman from being crushed by a cavalry parade in Dublin. In 1913, he was transferred to command the divisional artillery in the Wessex Division of the Territorial Force. First World War At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Fanshawe remained with the Wessex Division when it mobilised. The division was earmarked for service in India; however, before it sailed, Fanshawe was ordered to the Continent to join the British Expeditionary Force, where he became the Commander, Royal Artillery for 1st Division. He succeeded N. D.