Henry Sarel

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|name=Henry Sarel

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|caption=Henry Sarel

|birth_date=1 November 1823{{cite book |last1=Boase |first1=Frederic |title=Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Between the Years 1851-1900, with an Index of the Most Interesting Matter |year=1965 |publisher=Frank Cass |page=413 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1w4AQAAMAAJ |language=en}}

|death_date= 2 January 1887 (aged 63){{cite book |title=Rugby School Register: From April, 1675, to April, 1842 |date=1901 |publisher=Rugby School |page=301 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwkCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA301 |language=en}}

|birth_place= London, England{{cite book |title=Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge ... |date=1911 |publisher=Macmillan and Company, Limited |page=521 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jp8-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA521 |language=en}}

|death_place= Rollesby Hall, Norfolk

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|allegiance={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom

|branch=23px British Army

|serviceyears=1847–1885

|rank=Lieutenant-General

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|battles=Indian Mutiny
Second Opium War

|awards=Companion of the Order of the Bath

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Lieutenant-General Henry Andrew Sarel {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB}} (1 November 1823 – 2 January 1887) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.

Military career

Educated at Rugby School,[https://archive.org/stream/rugbyschoolregis03rugbuoft/rugbyschoolregis03rugbuoft_djvu.txt Rugby School Register, May 1874 - May 1904] Sarel became a cornet with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers in 1847{{London Gazette|issue=20753|page=2559|date=13 July 1847}} and subsequently transferred to the 17th Lancers.{{London Gazette|issue=22117|page=1571|date=24 March 1858}} He fought with his Regiment during the Indian Mutiny in 1857Second medal displayed in portrait and then joined the China Expedition in 1861.[https://www.jstor.org/pss/1798395 Papers read] Royal Geographical Society, 11 November 1861 He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1883[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Guernsey.html World Statesmen] and lived at Rollesby Hall in Norfolk.[http://apling.freeservers.com/Villages/Rollesby.htm Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, 1883, p.476]

Family

He married Phyllis Molyneux.[http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersS.html Unit Histories]

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