John Nixon (Indian Army Officer)
Lieutenant-General Sir John E. Nixon (1857–1921) was senior commander of the British Indian Army. He gave the orders for the ultimately disastrous first British Expedition against Baghdad during World War I.
Educated at Rossall School and then the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He then joined the British Army in India and moved up the ranks steadily. By 1914, he was the commander of the Southern Army in India, in overall command of 4 divisions and two units deployed outside of India (the 4th (Quetta) Division, the 5th (Mhow) Division, the 6th (Poona) Division, the 9th (Secunderabad) Division, the Burma Division, and the Aden Brigade).
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