Richard Taylor Military person

General Sir Richard Chambré Hayes Taylor, GCB (19 March 1819 – 6 December 1904) was a senior British Army officer who served in the Second Anglo-Burmese War, the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. Joining the General Staff in 1860, he was the British Army's Inspector General of Recruiting, then Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces, briefly Adjutant-General, and finally for three years Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was also Colonel of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and the East Surrey Regiment.Some members of the family preferred the spelling Taylour.

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Richard Taylor
Birth dateMarch 19, 1819
Birth place
Dublin
Date of deathDecember 06, 1904

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allegianceUnited Kingdom
award
Order of the Bath
military operations
Crimean War
Battle of Balaclava
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Second Anglo-Burmese War
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55)
military branch
British Army
military command
:Fort George Scotland
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Royal Military College Sandhurst

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