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[[Brigadier-General]] '''Ernest Douglas Money''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CIE|CVO|DSO}} (11 March 1866–4 December 1952) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer.

The son of [[Robert Money|Major-General Robert Money]], he was born in [[Harbledown]], [[Kent]], and educated at [[Sherborne School]]. He was commissioned into the [[Militia]] and then transferred to the [[Lincolnshire Regiment]] in 1888. He soon went out to [[India]] and served as [[aide-de-camp]] to the [[Governor of the United Provinces]] from 1889 to 1890. He was promoted [[Lieutenant]] and transferred to the Indian Army in 1892, being posted to the [[1st Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles]]. He took part in the [[Isazai]] Expedition of 1892, the Waziristan Expedition of 1894–1895, and the [[Tirah Campaign]] of 1897–1898 and was promoted [[Captain (land)|Captain]] in 1899 and [[Major]] in 1906.

In 1911 he was [[second-in-command]] of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Gurkha Rifles and served as Assistant Military Secretary to [[George V of the United Kingdom|King George V]] while he was attending the [[Delhi Durbar]]. For this he was appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE).

Money remained in India with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Gurkhas during the [[First World War]], taking over command as a [[Lieutenant-Colonel]] in 1915. He led the battalion in the operations against the [[Swati (Pashtun tribe)|Swatis]] and [[Boner (tribe)|Boners]] in 1915, the [[Mohmand blockade|Mohmand Expedition]] in 1916–1917, and in [[Waziristan campaign (1919–20)#Background|Waziristan]] in 1917. During the latter campaign he temporarily commanded the [[45th (Jullundur) Brigade]] and was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO). In 1918 he was appointed Inspector of Indian Depots of the [[4th (Quetta) Division]] as a [[Brigadier-General]]. In 1919 he commanded the Indian contingent at the Peace Parade in London, for which he was appointed [[Commander of the Royal Victorian Order]] (CVO) in the 1920 New Year Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31712 |date=30 December 1919 |page=6 |supp=y}}</ref> He briefly took command of the [[64th Indian Infantry Brigade]] in 1919 and the [[66th Indian Infantry Brigade]] in 1919–1920 before retiring in 1920.

In 1933 charges against him for "intent to insult two girls" were dismissed. He had allegedly offered them sixpence to perform a sex act on him in Watford Park.<ref>[http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/132203 ''Morning Star'']</ref>

==Footnotes==
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==References==
*Obituary, ''[[The Times]]'', 5 December 1952
*''[[Who Was Who]]''

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