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Indiay 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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