Years of service 1767–1822 Service/branch British Army Commands held Malta garrison Rank Lieutenant-general | Name Hildebrand Oakes Allegiance United Kingdom Awards Order of the Bath | |
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Battles/wars American War of Independence
Egyptian Campaign Died 1822, London, United Kingdom Battles and wars American Revolutionary War, French campaign in Egypt and Syria | ||
Lieutenant-General Sir Hildebrand Oakes, 1st Baronet GCB (19 January 1754 – 9 September 1822) was a British Army officer.
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Military career
Oakes was commissioned into the 33rd Regiment of Foot in 1767 and served in the American War of Independence under Lord Cornwallis. He became deputy quartermaster-general in Corsica in May 1794, quartermaster-general in the Mediterranean in June 1794 and quartermaster-general in Portugal in December 1796. He served in the Egyptian Campaign in 1800 as second-in-command under Sir John Moore. He went on to be brigadier-general at Malta in October 1802, Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and General Officer Commanding South-West District in November 1804 and a commissioner of military inquiry in June 1805. After that he became quartermaster-general in the Mediterranean in July 1806, commander of the Malta garrison in March 1808 and Civil Commissioner of Malta in May 1810. He was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance in January 1814 and died in office in that post.
Oakes was also colonel of the 52nd Regiment of Foot.
Family
In 1818, Oakes' daughter Antonia married John Wildman, younger brother of Colonel Thomas Wildman.