Template:Infobox military person General Sir Edward Stedman, Template:Postnominals (27 July 1842 – 25 June 1914) was a senior British Indian Army officer who served as Military Secretary to the India Office from 1899 to 1907.[1]
Military career
Stedman was commissioned into the Bengal Staff Corps in 1860.[2] By 1885 he was appointed Commanding Officer of the 3 Gorkha Rifles and was strongly commended for his leadership in Upper Burma by Major General Sir George Stuart White, Commanding the Upper Burma Field Force.[3] Later that year Stedman was made Inspector-General of Police in Upper Burma.[4]
Stedman joined the Chitral Expedition in 1895 as second-in-command and General of Communications.[5] He was appointed Military Secretary to the India Office in 1899.[6]
Stedman was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902,[7][8] and invested as such by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October.[9] Ha was promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 19 June 1911.[10]
Stedman was also Colonel of the 23rd Sikh Pioneers.[11]
References
- ↑ [{{{url}}} A Notable Indian General – The Late Sir Edward Stedman]. The Times(3 July 1914).
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