Thom's Irish Who's Who/Hackett, Thomas Dalby

HACKETT, Thomas Dalby, Major, Indian Army, D.S.O.; M.Inst. P.T., Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms and Black Rod, Parliament of Northern Ireland. Royal Field Artillery, 1900-08, Indian Cavalry, 1903-10, Burma Commission, 1910-21; served in South African War and in Great War; mentioned in despatches, D.S.O. Warden of Upper Burma Oilfields, 1911 and 1914. Commanded Remount Depot, Fyzabad, 1916-17; commanded Shwebo Batt. Burma Military Police, 1917-18; commanded Military Police relief force, and afterwards punitive expedition in Kuki Hill Tracrt, 1918; commanded force which annexed the Somra Tract (an area of some 6.000 square miles adjoining Burma-Assam frontiers), 1918-19; Deputy Commissioner Upper Burma, 1921; b. 19th Sept., 1881; eldest son of Very Rev. T. A. Hackett, D.D., Dean of Limerick. Res.: Tara, Marino, Belfast. Club: Cavalry Club.