Julian Hasler

Brigadier-General Julian Hasler (16 October 1868 – 27 April 1915), was a British Army officer in World War I. Early life Julian Hasler was born in Aldingbourne, West Sussex on 16 October 1868, the second son of William Wyndham Hasler, a wealthy landowner and Justice of the Peace for Sussex, and Selina Sarah Hervey, a member of the extended family of the Marquess of Bristol. After spending his early year at Aldingbourne House, his ancestral home, he attended Winchester College from 1882 to 1885. Military career After the academy, Julian Hasler was commissioned into the 1st Battalion of the East Kent Regiment, on 19 September 1888, and soon promoted to lieutenant on 4 February 1892. From 1895 he was almost uninterruptedly in active military service, first with the Chitral Relief Force (1895), then the Northwest Frontier in India as a captain (1897-1898, where he participated in the capture of the Tanga Pass), in South Africa (1900-1902) where he raised the Hasler's Australian Scouts, briefly in Nigeria where he documented a new species of Red-fronted gazelle, and in West Africa (1899-1900, 1903–1910). He was wounded several times and mentioned twice in dispatches because of his bravery. He was promoted to major on 7 February 1907 and to lieutenant colonel on 4 August 1914.