THE NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
It is stated in the Californian mail news that Lieutenant-General Sir John Simraonds will be Commander-in-Chief of the English army if Great Britain takes part in the war. It will probably be found that it is Sir John Linton Arabin Simraonds, K.C.8., who entered the army as Lieutenant of the Eoyal Engineers, December, 1837. After serving for several years in North America he was appointed inspector of railways December, 1816, and subsequently secretary to the Eailway Commissioners, and on the abolition of that Board became secretary to the Eailway department of the Board of Trade ; in October, 1853, ho proceeded to Turkey on leave, and was employed by Lord Stratford de Eedcliffc on several missions there. He afterwards became her Majesty’s commissioner with the Turkish army under tbo command of Omar Pasha, in which position ho served on the Danube, including the siege of Silistria, in the Crimea, the battle of Eupatoria, the siege and fall of Sebastopol, &c.; afterwards in Asia Minor, when at the forced passage of the Ingur he turned with his column the enemy’s right, to which the success of the day was by Omar Pasha attributed. Sir John Simmons has received a sword of honor from the Sultan. In 1855, at the close of the war, he was a* pointed Brit ish commissioner to the inter,.ational commission to determine the Turco-Eussian boundary in Asia. He was appointed consul-general to Warsaw, April, 1857 ; to the command of the Eoyal Engineers at Aldershot November, 1860; director to the Eoyal Engineer establishment at Chatham September, 1865; a colonelcommandant of Eoyal Engineers September, 1872 ; promoted to be Major-General in the army March, 1868; lieutenant-general September, 1872; made lieutenant-governor of the Eoyal Military Academy, Woolwich, March, 1868; governor, March, 1870; received a gold medal for the Danube campaign, a medal for Silistria, the English and Turkish Crimean medals, &c.; was nominated a C. 8., 1855 ; promoted to K.C.8., 1860.
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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 944, 4 July 1877, Page 3
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322THE NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 944, 4 July 1877, Page 3
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