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Henry Hallam Parr

Henry Hallam Parr

English army officer

Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr KCB CMG (24 July 1847 – 4 April 1914) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding North-Western District.

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Military career

Educated at Twyford School, Hallam Parr was commissioned as an ensign in the 13th Regiment of Foot on 8 September 1865.[1] He fought in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879, in the First Boer War in 1881 and in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882.[2] He also saw action at the Battle of Tamai in March 1884 and took part in the Nile Expedition later that year during the Mahdist War.[2] He served as adjutant-general to Lord Grenfell, in his capacity as Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, in the late 1880s.[3] He became Commander, Shorncliffe Garrison, in July 1898, General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District in October 1899 and General Officer Commanding North-Western District in May 1902; he retired in November 1903.[4]

Works

  • Parr, Henry Hallam (2008). Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr: Recollections and Correspondence. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1437131970.

References

  1. [1]
    "No. 23011". The London Gazette. 8 September 1865. p. 4320.
  2. [2]
    Keown-Boyd, Henry (1996). Soldiers of the Nile: Biographical History of the British Officers of the Egyptian Army, 1882-1925. Thornbury Publications. ISBN 978-0952804703.
  3. [3]
    "Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr: Recollections and Correspondence". The Spectator. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Army Commands" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
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