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James Sayer (British Army officer)

James Sayer (British Army officer)

British Army general

Lieutenant-General Sir James Robert Steadman Sayer KCB (13 January 1826 – 12 June 1908) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Western District.

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Sayer was born at Sibton Park, the eldest son of Robert Sayer and Frances Errington.[2][3]

Military career

Sayer was commissioned as a cornet in the King's Dragoon Guards on 23 May 1845.[4] He served as a junior officer in the Crimean War and subsequently served in the British Indian Army.[4] He became General Officer Commanding Western District in England in April 1883.[5]

He was appointed Colonel of the 8th Hussars for a brief time in 1886. He was then Colonel of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards from 1886 to 1908[6] and, in that capacity, he was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1906 Birthday Honours.[7]

References

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    Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1914). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (76th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2515.
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    Who's who. A. & C. Black. 1900. p. 891.
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    "The Sayers of Richmond, Surrey (by J.P.Sayer)". Bedford Park. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
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    "The Sayers of Richmond". Bedford Park. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
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    "Army Commands" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
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    "KDG - Succession of Colonels and Commanding Officers". Queen's Dragoon Guards. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  7. [7]
    "No. 27926". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 June 1906. p. 4459.
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