- Edward Seager
Lieutenant-General Edward Seager CB (1812–1883) was a
British Army officer who served in theCrimean War and in theIndian Mutiny .Seager, was born on
11 June 1812 , and, after serving in the ranks for nine years and one hundred and eighty-eight days from 1832, became a cornet of the 8th Light Dragoons on17 September 1841 . He was adjutant from5 October 1841 to25 October 1854 , being gazettedlieutenant on29 June 1843 ,captain on26 October 1851 , andmajor 31 January 1858 .He served with his regiment in the Crimean War of 1854, and up to February 1855, and was present at the battles of Alma, Balaclava (where he was wounded), Inkerman, and the siege of Sebastopol. On
28 June 1855 he was appointed assistant military secretary to Major-generalLord William Paulet , commanding on the Bosphorus, and continued in the same office under SirHenry Knight Storks until the end of the war on31 July 1856 , when he was rewarded with a medal and four clasps, the fifth class ofMedjidie , and the Turkish medal.Later on he served in Central India, 1858–9, was present at the action of Boordah, was mentioned in the despatches, and received a medal. From
5 August 1859 to5 August 1864 he waslieutenant-colonel of his regiment, and was then gazetted a brevetcolonel in the army.From
3 November 1864 to31 January 1870 he was acting quartermaster-general in the Dublin district, and from1 April 1873 to3 April 1878 inspecting officer of yeomanry cavalry at York. On15 January 1870 he became a major-general, and on1 July 1881 was placed on the retired list with the rank of lieutenant-general. On10 May 1872 he received one of the rewards for ‘distinguished and meritorious services,’ and on2 June 1877 was gazetted C.B.He died at Sion House, Scarborough, on
30 March 1883 .References
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