# Leslie Rundle

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Leslie_Rundle
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Leslie_Rundle.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Rundle
> Source revision: 1352442606
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|British Army general}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox military person
| honorific_prefix = [General](/source/General_(United_Kingdom))
| name             = Sir Leslie Rundle
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB|GCMG|GCVO|DSO}}
| image            = Leslie Rundle in 1916.jpg
| caption          = Rundle in 1916
| birth_name       = Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1856|01|06|df=yes}}
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1934|11|19|1856|01|06|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = [Newton Abbot](/source/Newton_Abbot), [Devon](/source/Devon)<ref>[http://www.coghlan.co.uk/facesandfacts.htm Faces & facts]</ref>
| death_place      = 
| burial_place     = 
| nickname         = 
| allegiance       = United Kingdom
| branch           = [British Army](/source/British_Army)
| service_years    = 1876–1916
| rank             = [General](/source/General_(United_Kingdom))
| unit             = 
| commands         = [Eastern Command](/source/Eastern_Command_(United_Kingdom))<br />[Home Army](/source/Central_Force)<br />[Northern Command](/source/Northern_Command_(United_Kingdom))<br />[5th Division](/source/5th_Infantry_Division_(United_Kingdom))<br />[South-Eastern District](/source/South-Eastern_District_(British_Army))
| battles          = [Zulu War](/source/Zulu_War)<br />[First Boer War](/source/First_Boer_War)<br />[Anglo-Egyptian War](/source/Anglo-Egyptian_War)<br />[Mahdist War](/source/Mahdist_War)<br />[Second Boer War](/source/Second_Boer_War)<br />[First World War](/source/First_World_War)
| awards           = [Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath](/source/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath)<br />[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George](/source/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George)<br />[Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order](/source/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order)<br />[Distinguished Service Order](/source/Distinguished_Service_Order)
| relations        = 
| other_work       = 
}}
[General](/source/General_(United_Kingdom)) '''Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCB|GCMG|GCVO|DSO}} (6 January 1856 – 19 November 1934) was a [British Army](/source/British_Army) [general](/source/General_(United_Kingdom)) during the [Second Boer War](/source/Second_Boer_War) and the [First World War](/source/First_World_War).

==Early life==
Rundle was born on 6 January 1856 in [Newton Abbot](/source/Newton_Abbot), [Devon](/source/Devon). He was the son of Captain Joseph Sparkhall Rundle, a Royal Navy officer, and his wife Renira Cathrine (née Leslie, who was the daughter of Commander W. W. Leslie of the Royal Navy).<ref name="oxforddnb">{{cite web |title=Rundle, Sir (Henry Macleod) Leslie (1856–1934), army officer |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35870 |website=www.oxforddnb.com |publisher=[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography) |access-date=24 February 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
thumb|left|Sir Leslie, 1 March 1899
Rundle was [commissioned](/source/Commissioned_officer) into the [Royal Artillery](/source/Royal_Artillery) in 1876.<ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/RUNDLE.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]</ref> He fought in the [Zulu War](/source/Zulu_War) in 1879, the [First Boer War](/source/First_Boer_War) of 1881 and the [Anglo-Egyptian War](/source/Anglo-Egyptian_War) of 1882.<ref name=lh/> He was involved in the [Nile expedition](/source/Nile_expedition) between 1884 and 1885 and served in the Sudan Frontier Field Force from 1885 to 1887.<ref name=lh/> For service in the [Khartoum expedition](/source/Anglo-Egyptian_conquest_of_Sudan) of 1898 he was promoted to major-general for distinguished conduct in the field.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Winston Churchill.|title=The River War Volume II|year=1899 |page=462. Published Longmans. 1899|url=https://archive.org/details/1899RiverWarVol2/page/n495/mode/2up}}</ref> He led a column up the [Blue Nile](/source/Blue_Nile) to relieve [Gedaref](/source/Al_Qadarif) the same year.<ref name=odnb>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35870 Leslie Rundle at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]</ref>

Rundle became [general officer commanding](/source/general_officer_commanding), [South-Eastern District](/source/South-Eastern_District_(British_Army)) on 29 December 1898.<ref name=commands>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |title=Army Commands |accessdate=2 July 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112744/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |archivedate=March 4, 2016 }}</ref> He was appointed [Honorary Colonel](/source/Colonel_(United_Kingdom)) of the [3rd (East Kent Militia) Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment)](/source/3rd_(East_Kent_Militia)_Battalion%2C_Buffs_(East_Kent_Regiment)) on 21 June 1899.<ref>''Army List''.</ref>

After the escalation of the [Second Boer War](/source/Second_Boer_War) in late 1899, Rundle was in January 1900 appointed to the command of the [8th Division](/source/8th_Infantry_Division_(United_Kingdom)) of the South African Field Force, with the temporary and local rank of [lieutenant general](/source/Lieutenant-general_(United_Kingdom)).<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27156 |page=430 |date=23 January 1900}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27175 |page=1880 |date=20 March 1900}}</ref> The appointment was described as "the most remarkable instance of advancement to high military office which has occurred in the recent history of [the] Army" by a contemporary issue of ''[The Times](/source/The_Times)''.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Commander of the Eight Division|date=23 January 1900 |page=9 |issue=36046}}</ref> He left [Southampton](/source/Southampton) in the SS ''Moor'' in March 1900 with the staff of the 8th division and 600 men of militia regiments,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War in South Africa - Embarcation of Troops|date=12 March 1900 |page=7 |issue=36087}}</ref> and arrived in Cape Town the following month. He served as commander until early March 1902, when he returned to the United Kingdom on board the [SS ''Carisbrook Castle''](/source/SS_Carisbrook_Castle).<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War – return of Officers |date=13 March 1902 |page=10 |issue=36714}}</ref> For his service in the war, he was [mentioned in despatches](/source/mentioned_in_despatches) (including by [Lord Kitchener](/source/Herbert_Kitchener%2C_1st_Earl_Kitchener) on 23 June 1902<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27459 |date=29 July 1902 |pages=4835–4837}}</ref>) and appointed a Knight Commander of the [Order of St Michael and St George](/source/Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George) (KCMG) (the award was dated 29 November 1900 in the gazette,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27306 |date=19 April 1901 |page=2698}}</ref> but he was only invested by King [Edward VII](/source/Edward_VII) after his return, at [St James's Palace](/source/St_James's_Palace) on 2 June 1902).<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The King´s Levee and Investiture |date=3 June 1902 |page=10 |issue=36784}}</ref>
thumb|Rundle House Museum at the War Museum 2025, Bloemfontein.
Following his return, he was in May 1902 back as General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District, based in [Dover](/source/Dover),<ref name=commands/> and was on 14 May 1902 appointed in command of the [5th Division](/source/5th_Infantry_Division_(United_Kingdom)), stationed there.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27436|page=3384| date=23 May 1902}}</ref>

He became General Officer Commanding [North Eastern District](/source/Northern_Command_(United_Kingdom)) in November 1903, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of [Northern Command](/source/Northern_Command_(United_Kingdom)) in 1905 and [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta](/source/List_of_Governors_of_Malta) in 1909.<ref name=lh/> He was promoted to general in September 1909.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28287|page=6814|date=10 September 1909}}</ref> He went on to be General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of [Eastern Command](/source/Eastern_Command_(United_Kingdom)) in 1915 and retired in 1916.<ref name=lh/>

Rundle was presented with the [Freedom of the borough](/source/Freedom_of_the_borough) of [Dover](/source/Dover) on 29 October 1902, while living there as General Officer Commanding South-Eastern district.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Army - Sir Leslie Rundle at Dover|date=30 October 1902 |page=12 |issue=36912}}</ref> He was honorary treasurer of the [Blue Cross Fund](/source/Blue_Cross_Fund).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000033%2F19161117&page=7 |title=Blue Cross Fund |newspaper=The Birmingham Daily Post|date=November 17, 1916|page=7|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:Lady Rundle (née Eleanor Georgina Campbell).jpg|thumb|right|Lady Rundle presented to [Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein](/source/Princess_Christian_of_Schleswig-Holstein) at 'The Drawing Room' of 1 March 1899.]]
In 1887, Rundle married Eleanor Georgina Campbell, daughter of Captain H. J. M. Campbell, Royal Artillery, but they had no children.<ref>Who´s Who</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10995261?searchTerm=8th+Division+South+Africa Obituary: General Sir Leslie Rundle] The Argus, 21 November 1934</ref>

Rundle died on 19 November 1934.<ref name="oxforddnb"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{s-start}}
{{s-mil}}
{{s-bef|before=[Sir William Butler](/source/William_Butler_(British_Army_officer))}}
{{s-ttl|title=[GOC South-Eastern District](/source/South-Eastern_District_(British_Army))|years=1898–1899}}
{{s-aft|after=[Henry Hallam Parr](/source/Henry_Hallam_Parr)}}
|-
{{s-bef|before=Henry Hallam Parr}}
{{s-ttl|title=GOC South-Eastern District|years=1902–1903}}
{{s-aft|after=Post disbanded}}
|-
{{s-bef|before=[Edward Browne](/source/Edward_Stevenson_Browne)}} 
{{s-ttl|title=[GOC North Eastern District](/source/Northern_Command_(United_Kingdom))<br /><small>([GOC-in-C Northern Command](/source/Northern_Command_(United_Kingdom)) from 1905)</small>|years=1903–1907}}
{{s-aft|after=[Sir Laurence Oliphant](/source/Laurence_Oliphant_(British_Army_officer))}}
|-
{{s-gov}}
{{s-bef|before=[Sir Henry Grant](/source/Henry_Grant_(British_Army_officer))}}
{{s-ttl|title=[Governor of Malta](/source/List_of_Governors_of_Malta)|years=1909–1915}}
{{s-aft|after=[Lord Methuen](/source/Paul_Methuen%2C_3rd_Baron_Methuen)}}
|-
{{s-mil}}
{{succession box|title=[Commander-in-Chief, Home Army](/source/Central_Force)|years=1915|before=[Sir Ian Hamilton](/source/Ian_Standish_Monteith_Hamilton)|after=[Sir John French](/source/John_French%2C_1st_Earl_of_Ypres)<br /><small>(as [C-in-C Home Forces](/source/Commander-in-Chief%2C_Home_Forces))</small>}}
|-
{{s-bef|before=[Sir Charles Woollcombe](/source/Charles_Woollcombe)}} 
{{s-ttl|title=[GOC-in-C Eastern Command](/source/Eastern_Command_(United_Kingdom))|years=1915–1916}}
{{s-aft|after=[Sir James Wolfe Murray](/source/James_Wolfe_Murray)}}
{{s-end}}

{{Governors of Malta}}
{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rundle, Leslie}}
Category:1856 births
Category:1934 deaths
Category:Blue Cross workers
Category:British Army generals
Category:Military personnel from Devon
Category:British Army generals of World War I
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Category:Royal Artillery officers
Category:British Army personnel of the Anglo-Zulu War
Category:British military personnel of the First Boer War
Category:British Army personnel of the Mahdist War
Category:British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
Category:People from Newton Abbot
Category:Governors and governors-general of Malta

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Leslie Rundle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Rundle) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Rundle?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.