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Edward Forestier Walker

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Allegiance
  
Name
  
Edward Forestier-Walker

Battles/wars
  
Rank
  
General

Service/branch
  

Died
  
27 July 1881Watford, Hertfordshire

Commands held
  
Commander-in-Chief, Scotland

General Sir Edward Walter Forestier-Walker (previously Walker) KCB (1812 - 27 July 1881) was a British Army officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Scotland.

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Military career

Forestier-Walker was commissioned in 1827. He commanded the Scots Fusilier Guards at the Battle of Balaclava in October 1854, at the Battle of Inkerman in November 1854 and at the Siege of Sebastopol in Winter 1854 during the Crimean War. He became Commander-in-Chief, Scotland in 1862.

He was also colonel of the 50th Regiment of Foot from 1871 to 1881, when they became part of the new Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment).

Family

On 20 July 1843 Forestier-Walker married Lady Jane Ogilvy-Grant, daughter of Colonel Francis Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield. Among their children were:

  • General Sir Frederick Forestier-Walker (1844–1910), a senior military officer who was Governor of Gibraltar.
  • Colonel Montagu Charles Brudenell Forestier-Walker (d.1902), who died in a train accident while serving as Assistant Adjutant-general to the British Force in Egypt
  • References

    Edward Forestier-Walker Wikipedia


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