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Godfrey Mundy

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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Battles and wars
  
Crimean War

Years of service
  
1821–1860

Service/branch
  
British Army

Battles/wars
  
Crimean War

Rank
  
Major-general

Name
  
Godfrey Mundy


Godfrey Mundy

Died
  
July 10, 1860, London, United Kingdom

Books
  
Our Antipodes, Our Antipodes - Or - Resid, Pen and Pencil Sketches, India: Pen and Pencil Sketches, Journal of a Tour in India

Major-General Godfrey Charles Mundy (10 March 1804 – 10 July 1860) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

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Military career

Mundy was commissioned as a lieutenant in the British Army in 1821. He took part in the Siege of Bharatpur in the Indian princely state of Baharatpur in 1825 before being made Deputy Adjutant General of the military forces in Australia in 1826. He served as Under-Secretary in the War Office during the Crimean War and was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1857. He died in office in 1860. He was author of the book Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies, with a glimpse of the Gold-Fields.

Family

In 1848 he married Lady Louisa Catherine Georgina Herbert; they had one son, Herbert Godfrey Mundy.

References

Godfrey Mundy Wikipedia