Horace Searle Anderson
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|name= Sir Horace Searle Anderson
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|rank=General
|branch={{army|British India|23px}}
|commands=1st Bombay Grenadiers
Naseerabad District
Nagpur District
Mhow District
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|awards= Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
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|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom
|birth_date=10 September 1833
|death_date=2 June 1907 (aged 73)
|birth_place=Hereford, Herefordshire
|death_place= Horsham, Sussex
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|serviceyears=1850-1898
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General Sir Horace Searle Anderson {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCB}} (10 September 1833 – 2 June 1907) was a British Indian Army officer.
Military career
Educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, Anderson was commissioned into the Indian Army on 6 April 1850.{{cite web|url=http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/special-collections/lot.php?specialcollection_id=118&lot_id=47850|title=Sir Horace Searle Anderson|publisher=DNW|accessdate=28 June 2015}} He saw action at defence of Khandesh during the Indian Rebellion and, after becoming commanding officer of the 1st Bombay Grenadiers in 1878, saw action again at the Battle of Maiwand in July 1880 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Anderson went on to be General Officer Commanding Naseerabad District in India in 1886, General Officer Commanding Nagpur District in 1889 and General Officer Commanding Mhow District in India in 1891.{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |title=Army Commands |accessdate=28 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |archivedate=5 July 2015 }} He was promoted to full general on his retirement in March 1898.{{London Gazette|issue=26950 |page=1868 |date=22 March 1898}}
He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1906 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=27926|page=4459|date=26 June 1906|supp=y}}
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External links
- {{find a Grave|80478257}}
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Category:Military personnel from Hereford
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Category:British Indian Army generals