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Posts : 7077 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 53 Location : Down South.
Subject: Major-Gen. Beatson Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:59 pm
Major-Gen. Beatson 1868-70, D.A.Q.M.G. Bengal 1872-3; into 3rd Dragoon Guards 1873; Staff College 1877-8; Stud. Inner T. 1877; Brigade-Major of Cavalry in Natal 1879, Zulu War (despatches, medal with clasp, Brevet- Major) 1879, Principal Staff Officer Transvaal Field Force 1879-80, Military Sec. to Sir Garnet (afterwards Lord) Wolseley in S. Africa 1880, Brevet Lieut.-Col. 1880 ; Chief Staff Officer to Sir Pomeroy Colley, Boer War ; present at Majuba, made prisoner 28 Feb., 1881, released end of March ; Major ; A.A.G. Cavalry Division Egyptian Campaign (twice mentioned in despatches, medal, clasp, bronze star, 3rd Osmanieh, Brevet-Col., C.B., A.D.C. to the Queen) 1881 ; A.D.C. to Lord Spencer in Ireland 1882-4 ; Brigadier Suakin Field Force (present at El Teb, relief of Tokar, Tamai, and advance to Tananeb (despatches, two clasps, K.C.B.) 1884; Brigadier Khartoum Relief Expedition 1884 ; mortally wounded at Abu Klea.
90th
Posts : 10482 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 66 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Re: Major-Gen. Beatson Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:32 am
I couldnt find Beatson in Mackinnon & Shadbolt's ' The South African Campaign Of 1879 ' . Cheers 90th.
rai
Posts : 233 Join date : 2009-10-16
Subject: Re: Major-Gen. Beatson Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:11 am
Hi All I don't know where this came from but it sounds like a Biograph of Sir Herbert Stewart who was in the zulu war, was on Wolseleys staff at Majuba with colley and died of wounds in 1885 trying to save Gordon. Rai Keynshamlighthorse
littlehand
Posts : 7077 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 53 Location : Down South.
Subject: Re: Major-Gen. Beatson Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:22 pm
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