At the departure of the Aldershot staff with Sir Redvers Buller in the conflict with the Boers in 1899, he acted as chief staff-officer at the camp at Aldershot, and was entrusted with the duties of mobilization.
Memorial to General Sir Redvers Buller VC (1839-1908), of Downes House, lord of the manor of Crediton, west side of tower arch.
Buller was born in Crediton, Devon, the only daughter of General Sir Redvers Buller and his wife, Lady Audrey, youngest daughter of the 4th Marquess Townshend.
There is a memorial to Buller, in the form of his recumbent effigy, in the north transept of Winchester Cathedral, England.
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He died on 2 June 1908, at the family seat, Downes House, Crediton, Devon, and is buried in the churchyard of Holy Cross Church in Crediton.
Kyle was born in South Africa and was named after General Sir Redvers Buller, the British military commander in the early stages of the Anglo-Boer War.
The relief effort was dispatched from Cape Town under the command of General Sir Redvers Buller and by early December 1899 this 20,000 strong relieving army was arriving just south of the river Tugela.
Redvers Buller | William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon | William Buller | Walter Buller | Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone | Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne | Reginald Manningham-Buller | Osmo Buller | Buller River | Buller | William Buller (racing driver) | William Buller Fagg | Walter Buller (bridge) | Victor Buller Turner | Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet | Sir Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Baronet | Sir Edward Buller, 1st Baronet | Redvers Sangoe | Redvers Kyle | Jon Buller | Ed Buller | Charles Buller Heberden | Buller's Albatross | Baldwin de Redvers, 3rd Earl of Devon |
In this he claimed, among The Soldiers I have known, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Ulysses S. Grant, Sherman, Robert Napier, Mikhail Skobelev, Osman Pasha, Sir Redvers Buller, and Lords Wolseley and Roberts.