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Thomas Bland Strange

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Nickname(s)
  
Gunner Jingo

Rank
  
Major general

Name
  
Thomas Strange

Years of service
  
1851–1885


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Born
  
15 September 1831Meerut, India (
1831-09-15
)

Allegiance
  
United KingdomDominion of Canada

Battles/wars
  
Indian Rebellion of 1857North-West RebellionBattle of Frenchman's Butte

Died
  
July 9, 1925, Camberley, United Kingdom

Books
  
Gunner Jingo's Jubilee, Gunner Jingo's Jubilee {Western Canada Reprint Series, 0820-9561; 5}

Service/branch
  
Similar People
  
Wandering Spirit, Big Bear, Frederick Dobson Middleton, Sam Steele, William Dillon Otter

Commands held
  
Alberta Field Force

Thomas Bland Strange (15 September 1831 – 9 July 1925), known as 'Gunner Jingo', was a British soldier noted for his service with the Canadian militia during the North-West Rebellion of 1885. Strange was a retired major-general at the time of the rebellion, and was raising cavalry horses near modern Calgary, Alberta. At the outbreak of the rebellion, his old friend Adolphe-Philippe Caron, who was minister of militia and defence in the government of Sir John A. Macdonald, asked Strange to organize a field force for the District of Alberta. This force, consisting primarily of inexperienced militiamen and a few members of the North-West Mounted Police, participated in the Battle of Frenchman's Butte fighting against forces under the command of Cree leader Big Bear.

Strange's greater importance is as the father of the Canadian artillery and one of the initial organizers of the Canadian army.

References

Thomas Bland Strange Wikipedia


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