Duncan Glasfurd Brigadier General Duncan John Glasfurd ( 23 November 1873 – 12 November 1916 ) was a British Army and later Australian Army colonel and temporary Brigadier General in the First World War . He was mentioned in dispatches for his role in evacuating Anzac . He was mortally wounded by a German shell at Flers . Early life and career . Duncan John Glasfurd was born in Matheran , India on 23 November 1873 , the second son of Major General Charles Lamont Glasfurd of the Bombay Staff Corps . He was educated in Edinburgh , Scotland and at the Royal Military College , in Sandhurst , England . Glasfurd was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in October 1893 , and served as adjutant of the 1st Battalion in South Africa . Promoted to captain in January 1900 , he saw action in the Orange Free State ; Paardeberg , where he was wounded ; the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony where he was seriously wounded in October 1900 . From April to November 1901 , Glasfurd participated in operations against the Mad Mullah in Somalia . He returned India but was again redeployed to participate in further operations against the Mad Mullah in 1903 - 04 , in which he commanded the 4th Somali Camel Corps . For his services in Somalia , Glasfurd was mentioned in dispatches . After another tour in India , Glasfurd returned to Scotland in June 1908 , where he became staff captain for coast defences , Scottish Command . Later that , year he was selected to attend the staff college at Camberley , England . Graduating in 1909 , he rejoined his regiment in Malta in May 1910 . In November , he was appointed brigade major of the Lothian Infantry Brigade . On 24 June 1912 , Glasfurd was seconded to the Australian Army as Director of Military Training , with the rank of captain . He was responsible for the program of compulsory training of cadets . Glasfurd was enthusiastic about the task , but dissatisfied with the quality of training being carried out by some of the area officers , whom he regarded as unsuitable for this particular task . He was also concerned about the volume of clerical work that the area officers were burdened with . On 20 September 1913 , Glasfurd was promoted to major in the British and Australian Armies . First World War . When war was declared , Glasfurd immediately requested permission to rejoin his regiment . Permission was not forthcoming ; Major General Bridges needed a staff college graduate for his 1st Division Headquarters , and Glasfurd was chosen . On 15 August 1914 he was appointed to the AIF as General Staff Officer ( 2nd Grade ) ( GSO2 ) , with the rank of Major . As such he was particularly responsible for training , and he supervised the training of the 1st Division at Mena Camp in Egypt . Glasfurd landed at Anzac at 5 : 35 am on 25 April 1915 . He climbed Ari Burnu straight to Colonel E . G . Sinclair - MacLagan ' s headquarters , where he was informed that the 2nd Brigade , instead of coming in on the left , would , owing to the 3rd Brigade having landed too far north , be diverted towards Lone Pine on the right . He returned to the beach where he found the senior officer ashore of that brigade , Lieutenant Colonel H Elliott . In the original plan , Glasfurd was supposed to meet the 2nd Brigade and guide it ashore . In actuality , Glasfurd had come ashore a few minutes later than Elliott and the rest of the brigade was not yet ashore . Glasfurd decided to form up units in Shrapnel Gully as they arrived , and started with Elliott ' s battalion , which he directed to Lone Pine . Glasfurd did not always get along with his superior , Lieutenant Colonel C White , who gathered all the staff functions to himself , leaving Glasfurd with little to do . When White became sick , Glasfurd took over as GSO1 of the 1st Division . White did not return , instead becoming Brigadier General General Staff ( BGGS ) of ANZAC , and so on 1 October 1915 , the appointment became permanent and Glasfurd was promoted to lieutenant colonel . During the evacuation of Anzac , Glasfurd represented the 1st Division on the Rear Party staff of A . Russell , which controlled operations at Anzac until Russell handed over to Colonel J . Paton . For his services at Anzac , Glasfurd was mentioned in dispatches and made a brevet lieutenant colonel in the British Army in January 1916 . On 1 March 1916 , Glasfurd was appointed commander of the newly formed 12th Infantry Brigade , with the rank of colonel and temporary brigadier general . His first test was a route march across the Sinai Desert . By the simple expedient of resting his men from 8 : 50 am to 3 : 25 pm he managed to avoid the hottest hours of the day and still make good time . Although many men fell out , the brigade reached its bivouac in good order . The 12th Brigade moved to France in June 1916 and on 4 July entered the line in the " nursery " sector near Armentieres , where Glasfurd was slightly wounded on 7 July . In August 1916 , the brigade was committed to action on the Somme sector , in the fighting on the Pozieres Heights and Mouquet Farm . On 12 November 1916 , the brigade was sent into the line again at Flers . While inspecting the line into which his brigade was about to move , Glasfurd was wounded by a German shell in " Cheese Road " . After an agonising ten hour stretcher journey from the front line to the advanced dressing station , Glasfurd died that night at the British 38th Casualty Clearing Station . He was buried in the Heilly Court Cemetery at Mericourt - l ' Abbe , France . For his services on the Western Front , he was twice mentioned in dispatches .