Lieutenant-General Hugh Macleod Leslie Rundle was born in Newton Abbot, Devon, in the UK on 6 January 1856.
He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1876 and saw action in South Africa in the Zulu War in 1879 and the First Boer War of 1881.
He arrived in South Africa in April 1900 and commanded the 8th Division during the course of the war.
