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London Gazette of FRIDAY, the 2Nd of JUNE filtllU). 26409. SUPPLEMENT TO London Gazette Of FRIDAY, the 2nd of JUNE. gutfjorftg. SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1893. War Office, June 3, 1893. To be Ordinary Members of the Military Queen has been graciously'pleased, on Division of the Third Class, or Companions of JL the occasion of the Celebration of Her the said Most Honourable Order, viz.:— Majesty's Birthday, to give orders for the follow- Major-General Augustus Henry King, Royal ing promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Artillery, Commanding Royal Artillery, Honourable Order of the Bath : Aldershot. Major-General Henry Broom Feilden. To be Ordinary Members of the Military Major-General Archibald Hammond Utterson, Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Commanding a Brigade at Aldershot. Cross of the said Most Honourable Order, viz.:— Major - General Crombie Cowie, Royal (late. Lieutenant - General Sir James Hills - Johnes, Bengal) Artillery. V.C., K.C.B., Royal (late Bengal) Artillery. Major-General George Francis Seville, Indian Oeneral Sir William Montagu Scott McMurdo, Staff Corps, Commanding a Second Class Dis- K.C.B. trict in India. General Lord Mark Kerr, K.C.B. Colonel James May, Indian Army. Colonel William Liston Dalrymple, Deputy . To be Ordinary Members of the Military Quartermaster-General in India. Division of the Second Class, or Knights Com- Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Thomas Thomson manders, of the said Most Honourable Order, viz. :— Simpson, half-pay. Colonel Arthur HuldiraandPrinsep, Indian Army, General Richard Thomas Farren, C.B. Colonel on the Staff, Bengal. Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General Colonel Charles John Burnett, Assistant Adjutant-' William Drysdale, C.B. General, Aldershot. Lieutenant-General and Honorary General Julius Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Arthur Gore Augustus -Robert Raines, C.B. Htmdcock, Indian Staff Corps, Colonel on the General William Gordon Cameron, C.B., Com- Staff, Bengal. manding the Troops in South Africa. Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Dawsonne . , General the Honourable Percy Robert Basil Melancthon Strong, Indian Army. Feilding, C.B. Colonel (with the local rank of Brigadier-General) Oeneral Alfred William Lucas, C.B., Indian Alexander Angus Airlie Kinloch, Commanding Staff Corps. a Second Class District in India. Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Malcolm Hassels , John Blick Spurgin, C.B., C.S.I. Nicolson, Indian Army, Aide-de-Camp to the General Thomas Wright, C.B., Indian Staff Queen. Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Osmond Barnes, Lieutenant-General John Doran, C.B., Indian Indian Staff Corps. Staff Corps. Colonel Thomas Kelly-Kenny, half-pay. General Robert White, C.B. Colonel Frederick Augustus Le Mesurier, Colonel General Mark' Walker, V.C., C.B. on the Staff (Chief Engineer), Ireland. Lieutenant - General and Honorary General : Colonel (with the local rank of Brigadier-General) Charles John Foster, C.B. .' Gerald de Courcy Morton, Commanding a Lieutenant-General William Stirling, C.B., Royal Second Class District in India. Artillery, Governor and Commandant Royal Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Theophilus Military Academy. Higginson, Indian Staff Corps..
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