Essex County Chronicle
Viscount Maitland has been appointed Commanding Officer of the Sportsmen’s Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), which will shortly proceed to its quarters at Hornchurch. Lord Maitland is the eldest son of the Earl of Laverdale. He entered the Militia, the 4th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, in 1883, served as Lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoons in 1887, in the Scots Guards in 1894, and in the South African War in 1900-1, in which he was mentioned in dispatches. Lord Maitland was appointed to the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1903: was Assistant-Director Auxiliary Forces, 1904-8, and is Hon. Colonel of the City of London Yeomans (Rough Riders).
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