Lord Sandhurst (Lieutenant-General Sir William Mansfield), 1871. Engraving from a photograph by Thomas Cranfield. The Right Hon. Sir William Rose Mansfield, now Lord Sandhurst, of Sandhurst...having been educated at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, from which he takes his title...entered the Army, in 1835...He saw some active service in India...In June, 1855, he was attached to the Embassy at Constantinople, with the rank of Brigadier-General...and in the same year he proceeded to the Crimea...On the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, in 1857, he was nominated Chief of the Staff in India, and in that capacity he attended the late Lord Clyde throughout the various military operations which led to the triumphant suppression of the mutiny...including the various affairs which resulted in the complete subjugation of the province of Oude...He was promoted to the rank of Major-General and nominated a Knight Commander of the Bath in 1858, "in recognition of his valuable services in the East Indies,"He was created Lieutenant-General in India, and Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1860...In 1866 he was made a Grand Commander of the Star of India, and in 1870 he was advanced to the dignity of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.
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