Humphreys was
commissioned into the
Lancashire Fusiliers as a
second lieutenant on 7 May 1898, and was promoted to
lieutenant on 1 April 1899. He served in the 2nd Battalion, which was posted to South Africa in December 1899 after the outbreak of the
Second Boer War. In South Africa he was adjutant of the Mounted Infantry Battalion, and was promoted to
captain on 5 October 1901. He joined other officers and men of the battalion who left
Cape Town on the SS
Britannic in October that year, and was stationed at
Aldershot after their return. Humphreys served in the
First World War in France and then with the
Egyptian Expeditionary Force, latterly as a brigade commander. before being appointed deputy director of military operations and intelligence at the
War Office in 1925. and went on to be commandant of the
Staff College, Quetta, in India in 1928 and
General Officer Commanding 5th Division in 1931 before retiring in 1937. ==References==