Brigadier general Arthur George Preston McNalty (1871-1958), was a seasoned British Army field commander of both the Second Anglo-Boer War and the First World War. In the Second Boer War (1899-1902), he received the Queen's South Africa Medal (campaign medal) with 5 battle clasps. McNalty served thereafter with the British Army of Occupation in Egypt from 1911–1914. Arthur McNalty served, finally, from 1914-1919 during WWI in Egypt, Turkey (during the Dardanelles Campaign or Battle of Gallipoli) and France, where during he had 6 combat despatches and completed his service as a Brigadier General or Brigadier (in field command, a commander of a brigade or three battalions, that is approximately 3000 troops). In France, Arthur McNalty was severely wounded. McNalty, subsequently, acted as Dire