Percival Scott Beves
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| Birth name | Percival Scott Beves |
| Born | 1863 or 1868 |
| Died | 26 September 1924 (aged 61 or 56) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom South Africa |
| Branch |  British Army Union Defence Force |
| Rank | Brigadier |
| Battles / wars | Second Boer War World War I |
| Awards | See honors section |
| Other work | Military Governor of South West Africa (1915) |
Brigadier Percival Scott Beves, CMG, CB (1863[1] or 1868[2] – 26 September 1924) was a British and South African military officer.
Beves went to The Leys School in Cambridge and joined the British Army in 1887. A year later he was already serving in India and Burma and shortly afterwards became an instructor at the Wargrave Military College in the United Kingdom. Here he taught military tactics, topography, engineering and military law until 1890.
He then took part in the Second Boer War until February 1900, including in the Battle of Ladysmith.[3] From then on, Beves lived in the South African Republic.
During World War I, Beves was military governor of South West Africa, present-day Namibia, from 11 July 1915 to 30 October 1915.[4] As a member of the South African military, the Union Defence Force (UDF), he played a key role in the campaign against German South West Africa through his landing in Lüderitz.[5][6] In 1917 he went to German East Africa to take part in the campaign there.
Beves died in 1924 from complications resulting from a malaria infection he had contracted in East Africa.[7]
