Josceline Wodehouse

General Sir Josceline Heneage Wodehouse GCB CMG (17 July 1852 – 16 January 1930) was a senior British Army officer.

Sir Josceline Wodehouse
Born17 July 1852
Died16 January 1930 (1930-01-17) (aged 77)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankGeneral
Commands heldNorthern Army, India
Battles/warsAnglo-Zulu War
Second Anglo-Afghan War
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

Military career

Born the elder son of Vice-Admiral George Wodehouse[1] and educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Wodehouse was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1873.[2] He fought in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879.[3]

He became Commandant of the Frontier Field Force in Egypt in 1888. When Kitchener was promoted over him to be Sirdar (Commander-in-Chief) of the Egyptian Army in 1892, he retired from the Egyptian Army and went to India where he was made Commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Malakand Field Force during the Siege of Malakand in 1897[4] and appointed General Officer Commanding the Presidency District of Bengal in 1898.[4] He was a district commander in Sindh, when on 13 January 1900 he was temporary appointed in command of the Secunderabad district.[5][6] A year later, on 11 April 1901, he was appointed in command of a First Class District in India (possibly Secunderabad or Lahore).[7]

He went on to be Governor of Bermuda in 1907 and General Officer Commanding the Northern Army in India in 1908.[8]

Family

In 1885 he married Constance D'Aguilar and in 1901 he married Mary Joyce Wilmot-Sitwell.[4]

References
  1. For more on George Wodehouse see: O'Byrne, William R. (1849). "Wodehouse, George" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray.
  2. "No. 24006". The London Gazette. 8 August 1873. p. 3703.
  3. Keeping the flag flying The South African Military History Society, Military History Journal - Volume 7 No. 2
  4. "Non-Australian ex-military Birdwood connections". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  5. "No. 27469". The London Gazette. 29 August 1902. p. 5610.
  6. Hart′s Army list, 1901
  7. "No. 27340". The London Gazette. 2 August 1901. p. 5128.
  8. The Peerage.com
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