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{{Infobox military person<br />
|name= Sir Horace Searle Anderson<br />
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|rank=[[General (United Kingdom)|General]]<br />
|branch={{army|British India|23px}}<br />
|commands=[[101st Grenadiers|1st Bombay Grenadiers]]<br/>Naseerabad District<br/>Nagpur District<br/>Mhow District<br />
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|awards= Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Bath]]<br />
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|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]<br />
|birth_date=10 September 1833 <br />
|death_date=2 June 1907 (aged 73)<br />
|birth_place=[[Hereford]], [[Herefordshire]]<br />
|death_place= [[Horsham]], Sussex<br />
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|serviceyears=1850-1898<br />
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[[General]] '''Sir Horace Searle Anderson''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCB}} (10 September 1833 – 2 June 1907) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer.<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Educated at [[Elizabeth College, Guernsey]], Anderson was commissioned into the [[Indian Army]] on 6 April 1850.<ref name=dnw>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/special-collections/lot.php?specialcollection_id=118&lot_id=47850|title=Sir Horace Searle Anderson|publisher=DNW|accessdate=28 June 2015}}</ref> He saw action at defence of [[Khandesh]] during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Rebellion]] and, after becoming commanding officer of the [[101st Grenadiers|1st Bombay Grenadiers]] in 1878, saw action again at the [[Battle of Maiwand]] in July 1880 during the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]].<ref name=dnw/> Anderson went on to be General Officer Commanding Naseerabad District in [[India]] in 1886, General Officer Commanding Nagpur District in 1889 and General Officer Commanding Mhow District in [[India]] in 1891.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |title=Army Commands |accessdate=28 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |archivedate=5 July 2015 }}</ref> He was promoted to full [[general]] on his retirement in March 1898.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26950 |page=1868 |date=22 March 1898}}</ref><br />
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*{{find a Grave|80478257}}<br />
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