Alexander Richard Hamilton Hutchison


Sir Alexander Richard Hamilton Hutchison, was a Royal Marines officer who served as Adjutant-General Royal Marines.

Military career

Hutchison was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry on 28 March 1890. Promoted to captain on 6 December 1897, he fought in the Second Boer War. He served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters Royal Marine Forces in 1915 and then saw action in the Gallipoli Campaign later that year before becoming Assistant Adjutant-General Royal Marines in July 1918 during the latter stages of the First World War.
Hutchison went on to be Adjutant-General Royal Marines from March 1924 before retiring in December 1927.