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Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker

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In 1860, he was posted to China as AQMG of cavalry in Sir Hope Grant's expedition and was present at the actions of Sinho, Chankiawan, and Palikao, narrowly escaping death in an ambush when reconnoitring for a campsite outside Peking. He became a colonel in the army the same year.
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but in 1865 was appointed military attache to the embassy at Berlin, a post he held until 1876. During the Austro-Prussian war of 1866 and the Franco-German war of 1870-1 he acted as British military commissioner to the
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In 1854, he was promoted major and left the Crimea the following year to serve as Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG) in Ireland as a lieutenant-colonel. In 1858 he joined the
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He was promoted lieutenant in 1839 and captain in 1846. He served with the regiment at Gibraltar, the West Indies and North America before transferring to the
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He left the post in Berlin to be Inspector-General of military education until 1884, when he retired with the honorary rank of full general. He was awarded
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in 1881 and later that year given the colonelcy of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, a position he held until his death.
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which successfully engaged the rebels at Bangaon and seeing action at the Jirwah Pass under Sir
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British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
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He died in London on 19 Jan 1894, and was buried in
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Redland, Bristol
Kensington
United Kingdom
British Army
General
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
KCB
Redland, Bristol
Mayor of Bristol
JP
Winchester College
33rd Foot
7th Dragoon Guards
Crimea
Lord Lucan
Alma
Balaclava
Inkerman
Lord George Paulet
HMS Bellerophon
Sebastopol
Crimea Medal
Order of the Medjidie
2nd Dragoon Guards
Indian Mutiny
Oudh
James Hope Grant
Shorncliffe Army Camp
Crown Prince of Prussia

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