Circa 1874-80 General Alfred Horsford, Horse Guards, War Office to Lord Dillon

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Circa 1874-80 General Alfred Horsford, Horse Guards, War Office to Lord Dillon
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Circa 1874-80 General Alfred Hastings
Horsford
, (military secretary at the Horse Guards 1874–80) Horse Guards, War Office to Lord Dillon, and saying that Martin Dillon had been saying that he thought you required a couple of tickets for the Guards mountings on Saturday.
Horsford
, Sir Alfred Hastings (1818–1885), army officer, was born at Bath, the son of General George
Horsford
(d. 1840), a distinguished
Antiguan
officer and lieutenant-governor of Bermuda 1812–16, and his wife, Marianne.
Horsford
was educated at the Royal Military College,
Sandhurst
, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the rifle brigade on 12 July 1833. He was promoted lieutenant on 23 April 1839 and captain on 5 August 1842.
Horsford
served with the 1st battalion rifle brigade in South Africa in the Cape Frontier War of 1847–8. He returned to the Cape in 1851 and commanded the battalion in the war against the Xhosa of 1852–3. He was promoted major on 26 December 1851 and lieutenant-colonel on 28 May 1853.
Horsford
accompanied his battalion to the East in 1853, and served with it in Bulgaria and the Crimea, including the battles of the Alma,
Inkerman
, and
Balaklava
, and the early part of the siege of Sevastopol. He was promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel (28 November 1854), and made CB and knight of the
Légion
d'honneur
.
Horsford
was appointed one of the lieutenant-colonels of the 3rd battalion rifle brigade which formed at Portsmouth in 1855, and took a wing of the battalion out to Calcutta, landing in October 1857. He commanded the battalion in Walpole's brigade at the battle of
Cawnpore
and in the advance on
Lucknow
. From February 1858 he commanded a brigade at the siege of Lucknow and in the operations in Oudh and north of the Gogra. After the defeat of the rebels at the Rapti on 30 December 1858, Horsford's brigade was left to watch the Nepal frontier.
Horsford returned home in 1860 to become deputy adjutant-general at the Horse Guards (until 1866), brigadier-general at Aldershot 1866–9, major-general on the staff at Malta 1869–71, major-general commanding the south-eastern district at Dover 1872–4, and
military secretary at the Horse Guards 1874–80
. In 1874 he represented Great Britain at the international conference on the usages of war at Brussels.
Horsford was made a KCB in 1860, and GCB in 1875. He was promoted major-general on 1 January 1868, lieutenant-general on 2 August 1875, and full general on 1 October 1877. He was a special commissioner of Chelsea Hospital, and successively colonel of the 79th Cameron Highlanders, the 14th foot, and the 2nd battalion rifle brigade. He died while on holiday at Belmaduthy House, Munlochy, near Inverness, on 13 September 1885, and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery.
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Circa 1874-80 General Alfred Hastings Horsford, (military secretary at the Horse Guards 1874–80) Horse Guards, War Office to Lord Dillon, and saying that Martin Dillon had been saying that he thought you required a couple of tickets for the Guards mountings on Saturday. Horsford, Sir Alfred Hastings (1818–1885), army officer, was born at Bath, the son of General George Horsford (d. 1840), a distinguished Antiguan officer and lieutenant-governor of Bermuda 1812–16, and his wife, Marianne. Horsford was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the rifle brigade on 12 July 1833. He was promoted lieutenant on 23 April 1839 and captain on 5 August 1842. Horsford served with the 1st battalion rifle brigade in South Africa in the Cape Frontier W
Type
Military
EAN
Does Not apply
Country
England
Estate or House name
Horse Guards-War Office
England County
Middlesex
City/Town/Village/Place
London
Certified Genuine
Yes
Era
1871-1880
Addressed to
Lord Dillon
Famous Persons in history
General A. Horsford
Document Type
Manuscript letter
Related Interests 2
Guards Regiment