Colonel Hugh Maurice Wellesley Souter was born in India in 1872. He joined the 14th Murray's Jat Lancers from the Manchester Regiment in 1896, and served in the Tibetan Campaign of 1903-4, being mentioned in dispatches, and also on the frontier. In the First World War he was in France, Belgium, Gallipoli, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. He received the D.S.O. and the C.M.G., and was four times mentioned in dispatches, retiring in 1921.
