Lieutenant-General Sir James Robert Steadman Sayer (13 January 1826 – 12 June 1908) was a

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officer who became General Officer Commanding Western District. Sayer was born at Sibton Park, the eldest son of Robert Sayer and Frances Errington.

Military career

Sayer was commissioned as a cornet in the King's Dragoon Guards on 23 May 1845. He served as a junior officer in the

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and subsequently served in the British Indian Army. He became General Officer Commanding Western District in England in April 1883. He was appointed Colonel of the

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for a brief time in 1886. He was then Colonel of the

1st King's Dragoon Guards The 1st King's Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army. The regiment was raised by Sir John Lanier in 1685 as the 2nd Queen's Regiment of Horse, named in honour of Queen Mary, consort of King James II. It was renamed the 2nd Ki ...

from 1886 to 1908 and, in that capacity, he was advanced to

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(KCB) in the

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