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Commands held
  
3rd Bengal Cavalry

Education
  
Battles/wars
  

Name
  
John Tombs

Rank
  
Major general

Died
  
1848, Malta

Allegiance
  

Service/branch
  

Major-General John Tombs (1777–1848) was an officer in the British East India Company.

Military career

John Tombs was son of a banker, Joseph Tombs (1745–1818), of Abingdon. Graduating from Abingdon School, John Tombs entered service with the East India Company. He commanded the 3rd Bengal Cavalry at the Siege of Bharatpur (1825–26) and was promoted to major-general in 1838. He retired from the Indian Army to Malta where he died. He sent his six sons home to Abingdon for an English education, the most distinguished of them being the sixth son, Major-General Sir Henry Tombs, VC, KCB (1825–1874).

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