John Burnett-Stuart

General Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart GCB KBE CMG DSO (1875–1958) was a British Army General in the 1930s.

Military career
Educated at Repton School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, John Burnett-Stuart was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1895. He saw service on the North West Frontier of India between 1897 and 1898. He also served in the Second Boer War in South Africa between 1899 and 1902 being awarded the DSO in 1900.

He served in World War I as a General Staff Officer in the British Expeditionary Force rising to become Deputy Adjutant General at General Headquarters for the British Armies in France in 1917.

After the War, in 1919, he was appointed General Officer Commanding Madras District in India where he was involved in the suppression of the Moplah Rebellion at Malabar between 1921 and 1922. The riots that he quashed were inspired by 10,000 guerrillas and led to 2,300 executions.

He returned to the United Kingdom and became Director of Military Operations and Intelligence at the War Office in 1922 and then General Officer Commanding 3rd Division in 1926. In 1927 he directed exercises by an experimental Mechanised force on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. He was appointed General Officer Commanding British Troops in Egypt in 1931 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Command in 1934: he retired in 1938.

He was also Aide-de-Camp General to the King from 1935 to 1938 and Colonel Commandant of 1 Bn Rifle Brigade from 1936 to 1945.

He was Deputy Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire.