3 SIGNED LETTERS to GENERAL GIPPS [1831-1908] from Lt GENERAL HARMAN [1830-92],

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3 SIGNED LETTERS to GENERAL GIPPS [1831-1908] from Lt GENERAL HARMAN [1830-92],:
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This is an unreserved sale for a small collection of items appertaining to General Sir Reginald Ramsay Gipps GCB [1831-1908] to include three signed letters from each of the following Lieutenant General Sir George Byng Harman [1830-1892], Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood [1838-1919] [typed] & Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell [1841-1925] + five other items including a clipped autograph of Field Marshal Paul Stanford Methuen [1845-1932].

General Sir Reginald Ramsay Gipps GCB [1831 - 1908] was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary. Educated at Eton College, Gipps was commissioned into the Scots Guards in 1849. He fought in the Crimean War at the Battle of Alma, where he was wounded by a bayonet in the hand, and the Battle of Inkerman, where he was wounded in the neck. He also took part in the Siege of Sevastopol. He was made Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Scots Guards in 1874 and of his Regiment in 1878. He was given command of a Brigade in Ireland in 1881. He went on to be Major General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding the Home District in 1884, Deputy Adjutant-General for Auxiliary Forces in 1891 and Military Secretary in 1892. He was also Colonel of the Durham Light Infantry. He lived at Sycamore Lodge in Farnborough. Lieutenant General Sir George Byng Harman KCB (30 January 1830 – 9 March 1892) was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary. Educated at Marlborough College, Harman was commissioned into the 34th Regiment of Foot in 1849. He served in the Crimean War and took part in the assault on the Redan during the Siege of Sevastopol in 1855 and was severely wounded. He also served with his Regiment in putting down the Indian Mutiny and was present at the Capture of Lucknow in 1857. He became Assistant Inspector of Volunteers in 1860 and Assistant Military Secretary in the West Indies in 1866. In 1873 he took command of a Brigade Depot at Pontefract, in 1874 he became Assistant Adjutant-General at Aldershot and in 1878 he was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General in Ireland. In 1882 he joined the General Staff for the Expedition to Egypt taking command of the Garrison at Alexandria. He became Deputy Adjutant-General at Army Headquarters in 1883 and Military Secretary in 1885. In that capacity he gave evidence to the Camperdown Committee, which were reviewing medical services in the British Army, and in his evidence accused Medical Officers of \"affecting to be combatant officers\" in order to secure promotion. He was still serving on the staff at headquarters when he died in South Kensington on 9 March 1892. Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood VC, GCB, GCMG (9 February 1838 – 2 December 1919) was a British Army officer. After an early career in the Royal Navy, Wood joined the British Army. He served in several major conflicts including the Indian Mutiny where, as a lieutenant, he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for valour in the face of the enemy that is awarded to British and Commonwealthforces, for rescuing a local merchant from a band of robbers who had taken their captive into the jungle, where they intended to hang him. Wood further served as a commander in several other conflicts, notably the Third Anglo-Ashanti War, the Anglo-Zulu War, the First Boer War and theMahdist War. His service in Egypt led to his appointment as Sirdar where he reorganised the Egyptian Army. He returned to Britain to serve asGeneral Offier Commanding-in-Chief Aldershot Command from 1889, as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1893 and as Adjutant Generalfrom 1897. His last appointment was as General Offier Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command from 1905. Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, GCB, GCMG, PC (29 April 1841 – 27 January 1925) was a British Army officer. After serving as aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, he fought in the 9th Xhosa War, the Anglo-Zulu War and then the Anglo-Egyptian War. He went on to become Sirdar (Commander-in-Chief) of the Egyptian Army and commanded the forces at the Battle of Suakin in December 1888 and at the Battle of Toski in August 1889 during the Mahdist War. After that he became Governor of Malta and then Commander-in-Chief, Ireland before retiring in 1908. Field Marshal Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DL (1 September 1845 – 30 October 1932) was a British Army officer. He served in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873 and then in the expedition of Sir Charles Warren to Bechuanaland in the mid 1880s. He took a prominent role as General Officer Commanding the 1st Division in the Second Boer War. He suffered a serious defeat at the Battle of Magersfontein, during which he failed to carry out adequate reconnaissance and accordingly his artillery bombarded the wrong place leading to the Highland Brigade taking heavy casualties. He was later captured by the Boers at Tweebosch. After the War he became general officer commanding-in-chief in South Africa in 1908, governor and commander-in-chief of Natal in 1910 and then governor and commander-in-chief of Malta in 1915. Georgina Charlotte Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury, VA, CI (1827, Paddington – 20 November 1899, Hatfield House) was the wife of British statesman, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG GCVO PC FRS (3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years. The first British Prime Minister of the 20th century, he was the last Prime Minister to head his entire government from the House of Lords. CONDITION: Commensurate with age and use. [Please study the scan carefully].

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