Budworth was commissioned a
second lieutenant in the
Royal Field Artillery on 15 February 1889, promoted to
lieutenant on 15 February 1892, and to
captain on 29 March 1899 In October that year he was appointed
adjutant of the
Honourable Artillery Company of London (HAC), and on 12 January 1900 he commissioned as a captain in the HAC company of the
City of London Imperial Volunteers (CIV) bound for service in the
Second Boer War. He left for South Africa the following month, and returned with most of the corps in October the same year. The CIV was disbanded in December 1900, and he went back to regular service with the Royal Artillery. He received the 1902
King Edward VII Coronation Medal for his service with the HAC during the
coronation. During the
First World War he was promoted, in October 1914, to lieutenant colonel. In July 1915 he succeeded Major General
Edward Fanshawe as
brigadier general, Royal Artillery of the 1st Division of the
British Expeditionary Force, and was given the temporary rank of brigadier general while employed as such. He was Lieutenant General
Sir Henry Rawlinson's senior artillery adviser, at
IV Corps (October 1915 to March 1916) and at
Fourth Army from May 1916, when he was promoted to major general, until the
armistice with Germany in November 1918. He played a key role in the Allied
Hundred Days Offensive at the Battles of
Hamel,
Amiens, and the final attack on the
Hindenburg Line. He was ten times
mentioned in despatches. In 1919 Budworth, having been promoted to major general in January, was appointed to command
59th (2nd North Midland) Division, which trained drafts for service in Egypt and the Black Sea until it was demobilised. Budworth became Inspector of Royal Artillery in India and was still serving in that role when he died in
Simla,
British India, on 15 July 1921; he was buried in Simla Old Cemetery. ==References==