Major-General Sir George Henry Waller, 3rd Baronet (2 September 1837 – 9 October 1892) was a
British Army
The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...
officer who served as commanding officer of the
7th Regiment of Foot.
Military career
Waller was commissioned into the
7th Regiment of Foot on 10 August 1854 and saw action in the
Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont fro ...
. He became commanding officer of the regiment in October 1871 and was promoted to
major-general on 7 April 1886. He married Beatrice Katherine Frances, daughter of
Christopher Tower; they had two sons and two daughters. He lived at Woodcote in
Warwickshire
Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...
.
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1837 births
1892 deaths