Major-General Alister Grant Dallas, C.B., C.M.G. (1866-1931)

Major-General Alister Grant Dallas, C.B., C.M.G. (1866-1931)
Alister Dallas was one of nine children, the Metis son of Alexander Grant Dallas, HBC Governor and Jane Douglas (Metis), a daughter of James Douglas the Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island and his Metis wife Amelia Connolly.

Siblings:
• Helen Amelia Dallas 1859-1860
• Mary Jane Dallas 1861-1922
• Rupert David 'Robert' Dallas 1863
• James Douglas Dallas 1864-1936
• Major-General Alistair Grant Dallas 1867-1931
• Cecilia Arbuthnote Dallas 1868-1960
• Octavia Sophia Dallas 1869
• Sidney Dallas 1871
• Herbert Dallas 1875-1945

Alister Dallas was born in Victoria and had a distinguished military career in India, the South African War, and World War I.

Dallas married Mabel Alice Brooke, the daughter of Brig.-Gen. Henry Francis Brooke and Ann Isabella Christopher on 27 May 1890. Alister died on February 2, 1931.

He was invested as a Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.) and as a Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.). He gained the rank of Captain in the service of the16th Lancers, Simla.

Career:
Dallas entered the army, 16th Lancers, 1886;
Captain, 1892;
Major, 1901; Lt-Col 1907;
Colonel, 1911;
General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, 1907;
Commandant School of Musketry, South Africa, 1907-11;
General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, 1911; served Indian Frontier, Tochi Valley, 1897 (medal with clasp despatches);
Tirah, 1897-98 (clasp);
South African War, 1899-1902 (despatches, Queen's medal 2 clasps, King's medal 2clasps);
European War, 1914-17;
Brig.-Gen. GS 4th Corps;
Commanded 32nd Brigade, Gallipoli;
53rd Division, Egypt and Palestine (despatches five times, CB, CMG, White Eagle 1st Class, promoted Maj.-Gen.);
retired pay, 1922.

Compiled and edited by Lawrence Barkwell Coordinator of Metis Heritage and History Research Louis Riel Institute
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Major-General Alister Grant Dallas CB, CMG (10 June 1866 – 2 February 1931) was a British Army officer. Born the son of Alexander Grant Dallas, JP, DL and Mabel Alice Brooke,
Dallas was commissioned into the 16th The Queen's Lancers on 23 August 1886. After serving in the Second Boer War, he became Commandant of the School of Musketry in South Africa in 1907 and then became chief of staff to Sir Henry Rawlinson, commanding IV Corps on the Western Front in late 1914 at the start of the First World War.
Rawlinson made staff changes in August 1915 and Dallas became commander of 32nd Brigade in the Gallipoli Campaign. After being evacuated from Gallipoli, Dallas became General Officer Commanding the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division in Egypt in January 1916 and saw action with his division at the First and Second Battles of Gaza, in which his division suffered significant losses, in March and April 1917.
He handed over command of his division in April 1917.

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