Graham Seton Hutchison
(1890-1946), Lieutenant-Colonel and authorSitter in 3 portraits
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 24 October 1929
NPG x124794
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 24 October 1929
NPG x124793
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Sean Scholfield
27 December 2022, 21:28
Graham Seton Hutchinson DSO MC served as a pre-war officer (Kings Own Scottish Borderers) and in the Great War, as a Machine Gun Corps officer. He is said to be the inspiration behind the military step march 'The Mad Major'. He was a military strategist who believed in 'no retreat'. He wrote for several papers, on military strategy and a couple of books, Footslogger and a history of the Machine Gun Corps, and received payment from Goebbels for writing positive pieces on the Nuremburg rallies that he attended.
He threw in his lot with anti Semitic Nazism in the 30s and 'led' two miniscule parties. He also wrote a couple of largely nonsensical books 'Arya the call of the future' After the war he turned to Scottish nationalism, regarding himself first and foremost as a Scottish Nationalist before dying in 1946. He was also a keen painter.