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| Subject: Bindon Blood Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:32 pm | |
| Major-General Sir Bindon Blood GCB (7 November 1842 - 16 May 1940) was a British military commander who served in Egypt, Afghanistan, India and Africa. Born near Jedburgh, Scotland, Blood was a descendant of Colonel Thomas Blood who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671. Blood attended the Royal School, Banagher, and Queen's College, Galway before the Indian Military Seminary at Addiscombe, near Croydon. He was commissioned in 1860 in the Royal Engineers as a temporary lieutenant in charge of signalling and pontoon bridge construction in India, and for brief periods in Zululand and South Africa. Promoted to captain in 1873, he commanded the British forces in the North-West Frontier and then in 1879 was sent back to Africa to fight against the Zulus. He went on to fight in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. By 1882 he was a brevet lieutenant-colonel. The following year, 1883, Blood married Lady Charlotte E. Colvin, second daughter of Sir Auckland Colvin, a distinguished Indian administrator. Then he returned to India and taking command of the Sappers and Miners in 1885. After seven years he reached the rank of brigadier-general at the British garrison at Rawalpindi, and then in the Chitral relief force. He then commanded the Malakand Field Force and the Buner Field Force, relieving the British garrison under Brigadier-General William Hope Meiklejohn during the siege of Malakand in 1897, until 1898, and at the end of this command he was promoted to major-general. Lord Kitchener requested Blood to serve in South Africa in 1901, stationed in Eastern Transvaal. In November 1907 he retired to London, where he continued to lead a very active life. He was made colonel-commandant of the Royal Engineers in 1914 and worked to recruit soldiers for the First World War. He was aged 94 when he was made Chief Royal Engineer (CRE) in 1936, and he died in 1940, survived by his one daughter.
http://www.remuseum.org.uk/articles/rem_article_blood.htm
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| Subject: Re: Bindon Blood Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:12 pm | |
| [center] [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Sir Bindon Blood, 1924See Pictorial catalogue of AZW graves |
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| Subject: Bindon Blood Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:04 am | |
| Hi all .
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1900-MAJ-GEN-SIR-BINDON-BLOOD-MEERUT-DISTRICT-BENGAL-/160538284144?pt=Antiquarian_Books_UK&hash=item2560d3d070
cheers 90th. |
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| Subject: General Sir Bindon Blood - 82 years-old Military Veteran Sat Dec 31, 2011 1:25 am | |
| General Sir Bindon Blood - 82 years-old Military Veteran - reviews R.M.A. Cadets who have gained their commission". Woolwich, London.
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| Subject: Bindon - Blood Sat Dec 31, 2011 5:33 am | |
| Hi Littlehand . Thanks for posting the site I've registered and it's well worth doing so . Type in zulu war and there are 12 films. Some showing the zulu's at eshowe performing / greeting the King ( England ) and other royal family members. It would have been a little scary at the end !!!. Especially if they knew the fate of P. Retief !. cheers 90th. |
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| Subject: Re: Bindon Blood Sat Dec 31, 2011 9:55 am | |
| Marvellous, seeing the men we discuss in the land of the living. Thanks Littlehand. |
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| Subject: Re: Bindon Blood Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:58 pm | |
| "Blood, Sir Bindon 1842-1940, general, was born near Jedburgh 7 November 1842, the eldest son of William Bindon Blood, of Cranaher, co. Clare, civil engineer, by his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Robert Stewart, of Hawick. He was a descendant of Colonel Thomas Blood [qv.] who attempted to seize the crown jewels in 1671. He was educated at the Royal School, Banagher, and Queen's College, Galway, whence he went to the Indian Military Seminary at Addiscombe, near Croydon, and in 1860 received his first commission as temporary lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. For the next ten years he specialized in signalling and pontoon bridge construction. He was responsible for the design of the boats which replaced the old sausage system of pontoons, and he became the first commander of the R.E. Telegraph Troop formed in 1870. He embarked for India in 1871, and, except for short periods of active service in Zululand and South Africa, served there for thirty-five years. On arrival in India he was posted to the Bengal Sappers and Miners at Roorkee where he remained for the next few years enjoying much sport and big-game shooting. In 1873 Blood was promoted captain, and served on the committee under Sir F. (later Earl) Roberts [qv.] which arranged for the ceremony to proclaim Queen Victoria Empress of India in 1877. Towards the end of that year he commanded on the North-West Frontier part of a punitive expedition against the Jowaki Afridis (1877-1878) for which he received the medal and clasp. In August 1878 he came home on leave, but on the outbreak of the Zulu war he was drafted to Africa early in 1879 as commanding royal engineer, 1st division Zulu Field Force. He was made brevet major and received the medal and clasp for his services in the campaign. On his return to England at the end of 1879 he found orders awaiting him to proceed to Kabul, where he arrived in 1880 a few months after the outbreak of the second Afghan war. He took very little part in the actual fighting and returned to Roorkee towards the end of the year with the medal of the campaign. He left India in 1882 and was posted to command the 26th Field Company, Royal Engineers, at Shorncliffe, but after only a few months was ordered on active service to Egypt, where his sappers took part in the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. This campaign brought him promotion to brevet lieutenant-colonel (1882), the medal and clasp, and the Osmanieh Egyptian medal. Blood returned to England in 1883 but soon succeeded in getting himself posted once more to India, rejoining the Sappers and Miners as commandant in Simla in 1885. Seven years later he was promoted brigadier-general and in 1894 colonel on the staff in command of the garrison at Rawalpindi. In the following year he was made chief staff officer of the Chitral relief force. For these services he received the medal and clasp and was appointed K.C.B. He came home in 1896 but returned before the end of the year to command the Malakand Field Force and the Buner Field Force (1897-1898). He was promoted major-general in 1898. Owing to Blood's skilful handling the campaign was speedily brought to an end. Returning to India from short leave, he commanded the Meerut division for the next two years, but early in 1901 Lord Kitchener [qv.] asked for his services in South Africa, and as lieutenant-general he commanded the troops in the Eastern Transvaal with headquarters at Middelburg and for some months was engaged on various rounding-up operations. Late in the year he returned in order to take up the important military command of the Punjab. This appointment he held, having been promoted full general in 1906, until he retired in November 1907 when he settled in London, continuing to lead a very active life. In 1909 Blood was appointed G.C.B. and in 1914 colonel-commandant, Royal Engineers. For the next sixteen years his activities were largely concerned with the interests of the corps, but he found time for recruiting work in connexion with the war of 1914-1918. When he was ninety years of age (1932) he was appointed G.C.V.O., and four years later he was the first officer to fill the re-created post of chief royal engineer. Blood's great popularity earned him many friends. His successes were due to his brilliant staff work and strategy and his carefully acquired knowledge of the habits and temperament of opposing forces. Blood married in 1883 Charlotte Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Auckland Colvin [qv.], a distinguished Indian and Egyptian administrator, and had one daughter. He died in London 16 May 1940, at the great age of ninety-seven, his name having appeared in the Army List for eighty years.
Sources: The Times, 17 May 1940 Sir Bindon Blood, Four Score Years and Ten, 1933 Journal of the Royal Engineers, vol. liv, 1940 Sir J. F. Maurice and M. H. Grant, (Official) History of the War in South Africa, 1899-1902, 1906-1910.
Contributor: C. V. Owen.
Published: 1949 Citations 1.[S47] Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editor, Burke's Irish Family Records (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), Blood, page 151. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Irish Family Records. 2.[S18] Matthew H.C.G., editor, Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995). Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of National Biography." |
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| Subject: Re: Bindon Blood Mon Mar 11, 2013 11:38 pm | |
| General Sir Bindon Blood (Ref Who’s Who, 1928) 7.11.1842 Born, eldest son of WB Bolod (deceased by 1927), Cranaher, County Clare, who in 1833 married Charlotte, daughter of Sir Auckland Colvin KCSI 1860 Commissioned in Royal Engineers 1877-8 Jowaki Expedition (medal) 1879 Zulu War (medal) 1880 Afghan War (medal) 1882 Egypt Medal (& Osmanieh 4th Class) 1895 Brigadier General & Chief Staff Officer, Chitral Relief Force 1896 KCB, re Chitral 1897-8 Major General, Officer Commanding Malakand Field Force & Burer Field Force (medal & 2 clasps) Promoted substantive Major General 1901 Lieutenant General commanding Eastern Transvaal, South Africa (QSA medal, 2 clasps) 1907 Retired 1909 GCB 1910 Daughter, Charlotte Carissima, married Richard Hugh Royds Brocklebank DSO, commissioned 9th Queens Royal Lancers 1901. One son, one daughter. 1927 Address : 59 Cadogan Square, W1. Telephione : Kensington 0416. Clubs : Marlborough, Raleigh
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| hi all, yeah 90th so have i,and 30 a pop is not to out of the way. . cheers xhosa |
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