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Horace Sewell

1881–1953

United Kingdom

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Brigadier-General Horace Somerville Sewell, CMG, DSO* (10 February 1881 – 25 December 1953) was a British Army officer who served in World War I. He was one of the few officers of African descent to serve in the British army during the conflict.

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