Lieutenant General
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Sir George Byng Harman (30 January 1830 – 9 March 1892) was a senior
British Army
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officer who went on to be
Military Secretary.
Military career
Educated at
Marlborough College
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, Harman was
commissioned into the
34th Regiment of Foot
The 34th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1702. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot to form the Border Regiment in 1881.
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in 1849.
[Falkner, 2004] He served in the
Crimean War
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Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...
and took part in the assault on the
Redan
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The redan developed from the lunette, ...
during the
Siege of Sevastopol in 1855 and was severely wounded.
[ He also served with his Regiment in putting down the ]Indian Mutiny
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the fo ...
and was present at the Capture of Lucknow
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in 1857.[ He became Assistant Inspector of Volunteers in 1860 and Assistant Military Secretary in the ]West Indies
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in 1866.[ In 1873 he took command of a Brigade Depot at ]Pontefract
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, in 1874 he became Assistant Adjutant-General at Aldershot
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and in 1878 he was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General in Ireland
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.[
In 1882 he joined the General Staff for the Expedition to ]Egypt
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taking command of the Garrison at Alexandria
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.[
He became Deputy Adjutant-General at Army Headquarters in 1883 and Military Secretary in 1885.][ In that capacity he gave evidence to the Camperdown Committee, which were reviewing medical services in the ]British Army
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, and in his evidence accused Medical Officers of "affecting to be combatant officers" in order to secure promotion.The Evidence taken by Lord Camperdown's Committee
British Medical Journal, 5 April 1890
He was still serving on the staff at headquarters when he died in South Kensington
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on 9 March 1892.
Family
He married in 1868 Helen, daughter of John Tonge of Starborough Castle and Edenbridge, Kent; she survived him.
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1830 births
1892 deaths
Military personnel from London
People educated at Marlborough College
British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
British Army lieutenant generals
British Army personnel of the Crimean War
British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War
34th Regiment of Foot officers