Joseph Frederick Laycock

Sir Joseph Frederick Laycock
Born	12 June 1867
Died	10 January 1952
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Brigadier General
Commands held	1st Notts RHA CRA ANZAC Mounted Division
Battles/wars	Second Boer War First World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Territorial Decoration
Relations	Robert Laycock

Brigadier General Sir Joseph Frederick Laycock KCMG, DSO, TD (12 June 1867 – 10 January 1952) was a British soldier, and Olympic sailor.

Laycock was the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1906. He was the first colonel of the Nottinghamshire Battery Royal Horse Artillery when it was formed in 1908 as part of the new Territorial Force. He funded the founding of the battery himself.

He was friends with Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, and they competed together in the 1908 Olympics at Water Motorpsort.

During World War I he served with his battery in the Middle East and also served with the Duke of Westminster's armoured car unit when it was involved in a widely-reported incident where it rescued prisoners of war from Senussi tribesmen. Later he became the Commander Royal Artillery for the ANZAC Mounted Division.

He lived at Wiseton Hall in Nottinghamshire.

One of his children, Robert Laycock, was also knighted and awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his services in World War II.

Laycock returning from the Boer War on the RMS Dunottar Castle, July 1900. Standing L-R: Sir Byron Leighton, Claud Grenfel, Major Frederick Russell Burnham, Captain Gordon Forbes, Abe Bailey (his son John would marry Diana Churchill in 1932), next two unidentified, Lord John Weston Brooke. Seated L-R: Major Bobby White, Lord Downe, General Sir Henry Edward Colville (a year later Churchill as MP would demand an inquiry over his dismissal from South Africa), Major Harry White, Major Joe Laycock, Winston Churchill, Sir Charles Bentinck. Sitting L-R: unidentified, Col. Maurice Gifford (who had lost his arm in the Second Matabele War).