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William Lockhart was the son of the Reverend Laurence Lockhart, the minister at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Born at the Manse at Inchinnan in September 1841, he joined the 44th Bengal Native Infantry in 1858 and as a young cadet officer served in the last few months of the Indian Mutiny. His active service took him to Bhutan, to Abyssinia with Napier, Sumatra, Burma, and he fought in the 2nd Afghan War. He spent many years serving on the North West Frontier and rose to become Commander in Chief, India in 1898. General Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart GCB KCSI died in office in 1900 and has been described as one of Queen Victoria’s most unremembered Generals.

Richly illustrated with over 60 maps and rare photographs this book follows his family life and his military exploits though part of Britain’s most tumultuous military history whilst setting the scene of life in India as a soldier of Queen Victoria, Empress of India. He was the Commander of the Tirah Expedition, one of the last campaigns of its kind and where British forces, for the first time, faced guerrilla tactics and mountain warfare by the most deadly adversaries in the world.

The author has also connected social threads of the period by introducing us to the General’s family, his nephew Frank Maxwell VC, his friend Lord Curzon and many other individuals from the Victorian era.

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