Kelly of
Castle Connell,
County Limerick, Ireland graduated from the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on 3 May 1898 and joined the
3rd (The King's Own) Hussars as a
second lieutenant the following day. He was promoted to
lieutenant on 17 January 1900, and was stationed with his regiment at
Lucknow and
Bengal in
India. The regiment had moved to
Sialkot in the
Punjab by the time he was promoted to
captain on 21 January 1903. Eight years later, he was seconded to the
Egyptian Army and as a captain was awarded the
Imperial Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh, Fourth Class. This was followed by a second foreign award the
Order of the Nile, Third Class on 20 June 1916. As a lieutenant-colonel he was given command of the
Anglo Egyptian Darfur Expedition and following its successful conclusion was awarded a British
Distinguished Service Order, and made a Knight Commander of the
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George both in 1917. He next served as the brigade commander of both the
5th Mounted and the
13th Cavalry Brigades, during the
Sinai and Palestine campaign. His last military post was as
commanding officer of the 14th West Riding Battalion,
Home Guard during the
Second World War. Philip James Vandeleur Kelly died in 1948. ==References==