Lieutenant General Saburo Inagaki/稲垣三郎 陸軍中将

Saburo Inagaki /稲垣三郎/ (May 6 , 1870 - April 28 , 1953) was born in Shimane Prefecture as the eldest son of Ryosai Inagaki. After graduating from the army school, he was assigned to the 1st cavalry battalion led by Yoshifuru Akiyama and served in the Sino-Japanese War . In 1899 he graduated with honors from the Army War College and thereafter went on to become a staff officer. In 1904 he served in the Russo-Japanese War as a staff officer of the Manchurian army. Around this time, he also served several times in England.
In 1918 he went to Siberia as a staff officer of the Urashio [Vladivostok] Expeditionary Force. After he retired from active duty, he served as the principal of the Japan Sports Association Gymnastics School (currently Nippon Sport Science University) and Kaninnomiya Betto.​

Military career.

August 1886 (Meiji 19) - Entered Army Army Central Junior High School
July 1891 (Meiji 24) - Graduated from the Military Academy (second term)
March 21, 1892 (Meiji 25) - Cavalry second lieutenant , attached to the 1st cavalry battalion , battalion adjutant knowledge
October 7, 1894 (Meiji 27) - Cavalry Lieutenant
October 25, 1897 (Meiji 30) - Cavalry Captain
December 1899 (Meiji 32) - Graduated from Army War College (13th grade, Imperial gift), Company commander of the 1st cavalry battalion
March 1900 (Meiji 33) - Served at General Staff Headquarters
December - General Staff
March 1901 (Meiji 34) - Military attaché to Imperial Prince Kankaninnomiya Saihito
March 1902 (Meiji 35) - Stationed in England
December 19 - Cavalry Major
April 1904 (Meiji 37) - Attached to General Staff Headquarters (Attached to Prince Hitoshi)
Aug- Appointed staff officer of the Manchurian Army
Nov- Attached to the General Staff (Sent to England)
April 19, 1905 (Meiji 38) - Lieutenant Colonel
February 1906 (Meiji 39) - Military attaché to India
April 1909 (Meiji 42) - Commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment
December 23, 1910 (Meiji 43) - Cavalry Colonel with British Embassy
April 1, 1916 (Taisho 5) - Major General
January 1917 (Taisho 6) - Attached to General Staff Headquarters
August 6 - Commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade
August 1918 (Taisho 7) - Urashio [Vladivostok] expeditionary force staff officer (1st section chief)
1919 (Taisho 8) June - Urashio Expeditionary Force Chief of Staff
July 25 - Army Lieutenant General
July 1920 (Taisho 9) - Attached to General Staff Headquarters
September - Army representative to the League of Nations
April 1923 (Taisho 12) - Attached to General Staff Headquarters
September 1 - Reserve
April 1924 (Taisho 13) - Director of Japan Gymnastics School (-October 1939)
July 1928 (Showa 3) - Kaninnomiya Betto (- July 1945)


27 July 1916 as Major General.

In addition to the Japanese awards he is wearing Order of the Bath (Companion) and King George V Coronation Medal.

Note how enamel of Sacred Treasure order is damaged.

 

 

Circa 1918.

 

General Kikuzo Otani, commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in eastern Siberia, Russia with his staff officers, Japanese headquarters, Vladivostok, Siberia. Left to right, first row : Lieut. Col. Takshima, Lieut. Col. Uyeda, Col. Ameno, Lieut. Gen. Yelhi, Gen. Otani, Maj. Gen. Inagaki, Col. Sakabe, Col. (P. M.) Itoyama. Left to right, second row: Lieut. Col. M. C. H. Takahasgi, Capt. Hiro, Maj. Nakayama, Maj. Hasebe, Lieut. Col. Kang, Maj. Komoto, Capt. Kawase, Capt. Takahashi, Lieut. Col. Watanabe, Capt. Watanabe. Left to right, third row: Lieut. Kawakatsu, Capt. Maeno, Capt. Takanaka, Capt. Mitome, Capt. Aoyagi, Capt. Oshima, Capt. Tsuchiya, Capt. (P. M.) Egawa, Capt. Nakagawa.

 

Ceremony of awarding allied officers with Japanese orders, November 1919 Vladivostok. Decree is read by the Major General Inagaki Saburo the head of the 1st (operational) section of Japanese Expeditionary Force Headquarters.

From left to right:

1. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia and the Far East (AEFS) Major General William S. Graves,
2. head of the British military mission in Siberia, Major General Alfred Knox (Commander, British Military Mission to Siberia British Military Attaché in Russia Major General Sir Alfred William Fortescue Knox),
3. Commodore Lin Jianzhang,
4. Commander of the Chinese 33rd Regiment of the 9th Division, Colonel Song Huanzhang,
5. Mayor of Vladivostok, Major of the Czechoslovak Corps Broz (Czech Town Major Broz),
6. Officer of the Czechoslovak military mission.​