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[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]] '''Sir George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCB|KCMG|CIE}} (3 October 1855 – 4 June 1924) was a Scottish soldier and engineer.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Scott-Moncrieff, Major-General Sir George Kenneth|journal=Who's Who|year=1920|pages= 2301|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3452408;view=1up;seq=2349}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Scott-Moncrieff was born in Bengal, [[British India]], the younger son of Maj. Alexander Pringle Scott-Moncrieff, of the 44th Bengal Infantry, and of Elizabeth Hastie Coventry, younger daughter of the [[George Coventry (minister)|Rev. George Coventry]], of Shanwell, Kinross-shire. His father was the second of seven sons born to [[Robert Scott Moncrieff]] (1793–1869); his younger brother was the distinguished engineer Sir [[Colin Scott-Moncrieff]] (1836–1916).<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir George Scott-Moncrieff – An Eminent Military Engineer |work=[[The Times]] |date=7 June 1924 |page=15 }}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Scott-Moncrieff joined the [[Royal Engineers]] in 1873 and served in Afghanistan from 1878–1880. He was an Instructor at the School of Military Engineering from 1893–1898. He was Commander of the Royal Engineers, China Expeditionary Force 1900–1901, taking part in the [[Battle of Peking (1900)|relief of Peking]] and the Waziristan expedition on the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955)|North West Frontier]], India 1901–1902.<ref>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/MONCRIEFF1.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives: Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975.]</ref><br />
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He was Assistant Director, Fortifications and Works, Army Headquarters 1909–1911, and [[Chief Royal Engineer|Director, Fortifications and Works]], [[War Office]] 1911–1918. He was promoted to the rank of major-general on 1 October 1912, following the retirement of Major-General [[Richard Ruck|Richard M. Ruck]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28649 |date=1 October 1912|page=7195}}</ref> He retired in 1918.<br />
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He was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] in 1901 for services in China,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27337 |date=23 July 1901|pages=4916–4917 |supp=y }}</ref> a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]] in the [[1907 Birthday Honours]]<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28034 |date=25 June 1906|pages=4430–4436 |supp=y }}</ref> and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the [[1915 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=12813 |date=4 June 1915|city=e|pages=770–770 }}</ref> He was appointed a Knight Commander of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG) in 1918 for valuable services rendered in connection with the War.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=13225 |date=19 March 1918| city=e|pages=1048–1048}}</ref><br />
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==Selected works==<br />
*{{cite book|title=The royal engineers field-service pocket-book|year=1894}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=The water supply of barracks and cantonments|year=1896|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100230523}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=The principles of structural design|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006574741}}; vol. 1 (1897); vol. 2 (1898)<br />
*{{cite book|title=Recent works in the N. W. Frontier Province, India|year=1905}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=Eastern missions from a soldier's standpoint|year=1907}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=Works economics|year=1910}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=Field entrenchments: spadework for riflemen, hasty fire cover, fire trenches, communications, concealment, obstruction, shelters|year=1914}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=Canals & campaigns: an engineer officer in India, 1870-1885|year=1987|publisher=British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia}}<br />
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