Vol. V-— No. 52.] FRIDAY., DECEMBER 10th, 7 ^ 9 7 .THE NATIVE ARMY OF INDIA.C O M M A N D E R E . P . S T A T H A M , R .N .Photo. W lX D O W & G R O V E , B a k e r Street.S ir G. S. W H I T E , V.C., G .C .I.E ., K .C .B ., the Com m ander-in-Chief in India.SIR G E O R G E W H IT E joined the Service as ensign in the 27th Foot, in 1853, when barely eighteen. Tenyears later he was promoted captain, exchanging im m ediately into the Gordon H ighlanders. It is w ith this corps that his career has been most clo sely. connected, and he is now its colonel. For this reason it is a portrait of him taken when in command of the grand old “ N inety-T w a’s ” that we now present to our readers His M utiny medal was won in the old 27th, but all the other honours which bedeck his breast were gained inthe Gordon Highlanders. A s second in command of that regim ent he served through the Afghan W ar of1879-80, w inning the V ictoria Cross, a C.B., and his brevet as lieutenant-colonel, to say nothing of frequent mention in despatches. H is cross he won by two separate acts o f valour. A t Charasiah he led two com panies of his regim ent up a steep mountain-side to attack an enem y strongly posted and eight times superior in force. W hen his men halted, exhausted, W hite, seizing a rifle, rushed forward alone, and shot dead the leader of the enemy. Again, at Candahar, W hite led the final charge, under a heavy fire, riding straight up to the m uzzles of the enemy’s guns, and him self capturing one. H e commanded the Gordons from 1881 to 1885, and since thenhas seen service in E gypt as assistant adjutant and quarterm aster-general in the N ile Expedition, 1884-85;in Burma, in command, from 1885-89; and in command of the Zhob V alley Force in 1890. I11 1893 he wasmade Com m ander-in-Chief in India, a position he now vacates only to assume that of Quarterm aster-General of the Forces, in succession to Sir E velyn W ood. L ike Roberts and W olseley, he is an Irishm an, being the eldestsou and heir o f the late J. R. W hite, Esq., D.L., of W hitehall, Ballym ena, County Antrim .
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Jan 18, 2018 — famous Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Engineers, which were ... mation ; and in June, I930, in England, I wrote the first words of ... in October, 1897-He punishes Afridis-Difficult retreat down Bara Valley- ... 1 The Madras, Bombay, Sikh and Hazara Pioneers. ... 6 Afterwar::ds ~rd _Robe~ts o~ Kandahar.
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Aug 19, 2019 — The battle of Saragarhi: when 21 Sikh soldiers stood against 10,000 men ... Captain Jay Singh-Sohal explores the events of 12 September 1897 at the ... General Sir Frederick Roberts (later First Baron Roberts of Kandahar) on the ... Force and Bengal Army, bringing the 36th to full strength of 912 men in ...
Missing: april Cavalry Bombay Lancers
13th Bombay Lancers: Mohmand Field Force, 7th August to 1st October 1897, ... 7th August to 1st October 1897, North-West Frontier of India: picture by AC Lovett ... Frontier began with the annexation of the Punjab, following the two Sikh Wars. ... A cavalry squadron, comprising troops from the 13th Bengal Lancers and the ...
The Indian Army comprised the three armies of the Presidencies of Bombay, Madras ... British regiments had received the new Lee Metford bolt action magazine rifle from 1894. ... 45th Sikhs: Malakand Rising, 26th July to 22nd August 1897 on the ... 8 Bengal Mountain Battery and 1 squadron of the 11th Bengal Lancers.
1831; British Envoy at Lahore; Governor of Bombay, 1846-48 and 1860-62; Per- ... wounded, First Sikh War; Military Secretary to Lord Gough, 1846-49; fought in the Crimea ... 1888; served Upper Burma, 1892; North West Frontier, 1897-98; South Africa ... Abdul Alim Khan, 6 Cavalry, France, to Hafiz Abdul Karim, 30 May.
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