Allegiance United Kingdom Role Military Officer Years of service 1849-1893 Service/branch British Army | Commands held Bombay Army Rank General Name George Greaves | |
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Battles/wars Indian Mutiny
Third Anglo-Ashanti War
Suakin Expedition Died April 11, 1922, Saundersfoot, United Kingdom Awards Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George Battles and wars Indian Rebellion of 1857, Suakin Expedition | ||
General Sir George Richards Greaves (9 November 1831 – 11 April 1922) was a British Army officer.
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Military career
Greaves was commissioned in November 1849. He served in the response to the Indian Rebellion of 1857 before becoming Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General for the Eusufzye Expedition in 1858 and Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General in New Zealand in 1862. He went on to be Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at Headquarters in 1870, Chief of Staff for the Third Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873 and then became Chief of Staff and Chief Secretary to Government of Cyprus in 1878. After that he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General at Headquarters in 1874, Administrator of Cyprus in 1879 and Adjutant-General, India later that year. He then commanded a Division in the Bengal Army from 1885 before serving as Chief of Staff for the Second Suakin Expedition in 1885 and Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army from 1891. He retired in March 1893.
Family
In 1859 Greaves married Ellen Hutchison; following the death of his first wife, he married Julia Rose Venour (née Morris) in 1908.