Name Henry Longden | Years of service 1836–1880 | |
Battles/wars First Anglo-Sikh WarSecond Anglo-Sikh WarIndian Rebellion Awards Order of the Bath, Order of the Indian Empire Battles and wars First Anglo-Sikh War, Second Anglo-Sikh War, Indian Rebellion of 1857 | ||
General Sir Henry Errington Longden KCB, CIE (January 1819 – 29 January 1890) was a British Army officer who served as Adjutant-General in India.
Military career
Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Longden was commissioned into the 10th Regiment of Foot on 16 September 1836. He fought at the Battle of Sobraon in February 1846 during the First Anglo-Sikh War as well as the Siege of Multan in Autumn 1848 and the Battle of Gujrat in February 1849 during the Second Anglo-Sikh War. He also took part in the Siege of Lucknow in Autumn 1857 and the subsequent relief of Azamgarh during the Indian Rebellion. He became Adjutant-General in India in January 1866 before retiring in 1880.
He was given the colonelcy of the Hampshire Regiment in 1883, transferring in 1888 to be colonel of the Lincolnshire Regiment until his death.