British Army general
General Sir Edward Francis Chapman KCB FRGS British Army officer who commanded the Army in Scotland and was the ceremonial head of the Royal Regiment of Artillery .[ 1]
Military career
He was commissioned into the Bengal Artillery in 1858, which was later amalgamated into the Royal Artillery .[ 2] Sir Frederick Roberts who predicted that Chapman would "make his mark". He was duly selected to fight in the British Expedition to Abyssinia between 1867 and 1868 as the commander of No. 5 Battery, 21st Brigade. He was present at the action of Arogee and at the fall of Magdala, working as aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General Petrie and being mentioned in dispatches for his services. Chapman was part of a mission to Yarkand in China in 1874.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] Second Anglo-Afghan War from 1878 to 1880, and was Sir Frederick Roberts' Chief of Staff during the march from Kabul to Kandahar .[ 2]
He was appointed Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, India in 1881 and went on the Burma expedition in 1885.[ 2] other ranks in the hope of reducing the incidence of venereal diseases .[ 5] Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office in 1891. He was aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria in 1891.[ 6] [ 7] Royal Geographical Society , he presented several lectures and wrote numerous papers on the effects of physical geography on the tactics and success of military operations.[ 8] British Indian Army .[ 9] major-general in 1889, lieutenant-general in 1892, and general in March 1896.[ 10] Commander Scottish District in 1896, a post he held until 1901.[ 11] Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1905 and retired in 1906.[ 2] [ 12] Master Gunner, St James's Park , the ceremonial commander of the Royal Artillery, between 1919 and 1926.[ 13]
Personal life
On 3 December 1886 he married Georgiana Bayley ,[ 14] Edward Clive Bayley .[ 15]
He lived at Limpsfield in Surrey .[ 14] Venerable Order of Saint John and a member of the Athenaeum Club, London .[ 16] [ 17]
The Anglican priest and London County Council member the Rev Hugh Boswell Chapman was a younger brother.[ 18]
References
^ "Who's Who 1914" . Retrieved 4 November 2014 .^ a b c d e Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives ^ "Yarkund Mission, 1873. - View in Bazar, Leh. 355190" . British Library. Retrieved 22 September 2014 .^ "Edward Francis Chapman photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar, 1873-1874" . Getty Research Institute hdl :10020/cifa2017r16 . Retrieved 14 November 2020 .^ Philippa Levine, Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (Psychology Press, 2003), 96-7.
^ "Who's Who 1914" . Retrieved 4 November 2014 .^ "No. 25054" . The London Gazette ^ E. F. Chapman, Lecture on Physical Geography in Its Relation to Military Operations (Kessinger Publishing, 2010)
^ Chapman, Edward Francis. "Google booklist" . Retrieved 22 September 2014 . ^ "Who's Who 1914" . Retrieved 4 November 2014 .^ "No. 27312" . The London Gazette ^ "No. 27926" . The London Gazette ^ "Celebrities of the Army" . Anglo-Afghan War. Retrieved 22 October 2014 .^ a b The Templehouse Papers ^ "Who's Who 1914" . Retrieved 4 November 2014 .^ "Who's Who 1914" . Retrieved 4 November 2014 .^ "Dod's Peerage" . Retrieved 22 August 2014 .^ Hughes-Hughes, WO, The Register of Tonbridge School from 1820 to 1893 , (1893: Richard Bentley) p 141.
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