Colonel P.H. Dalbiac CB, TD

Dalbiac was born in West Sussex in 1855. He was educated at Winchester College, and then commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot in 1875, but in the same year exchanged to the 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1879. His regiment became the 1st Battalion of The Sherwood Foresters in 1881, and two years later he was promoted to captain. He retired as a major in 1890. In 1896 he was elected as a Conservative MP, but he stepped down at the next election in 1900. In the meantime, he served with the Volunteer Forces. In 1908, when the Territorial Army was started, he was given command of the 2nd London Divisional Transport and Supply Column, with the honorary rank of colonel. He was awarded the TD in 1911 and the CB as well in the same year. He resigned his commission in 1912 but returned to the Army in 1914. He was given the job of raising a second-line duplicate of the supply column of the newly raised 60th Division, with which he travelled to Salonika. He died in 1927.