13-514: General Sir Bindon Blood , GCB , GCVO (7 November 1842 – 16 May 1940) was a British Army commander who served in Egypt , Afghanistan , India , and South Africa . Bindon Blood was born near Jedburgh , Scotland, to William Bindon Blood (1817–1894) and Margaret Stewart (1820–1849). He was related to Colonel Thomas Blood , who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671. He attended
26-733: A very active life. He was made colonel-commandant of the Royal Engineers in 1914 and worked to recruit soldiers for the First World War . He was aged 94 when he was made Chief Royal Engineer (CRE) in 1936. He died in 1940, survived by his one daughter. Winston Churchill , who served under Blood on the North-West Frontier in 1897, dedicated his first non-fiction book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), to Major-General Sir Bindon Blood, K.C.B., under whose command
39-534: Is now only awarded as an honorary rank. The rank of general has a NATO-code of OF-9 , and is a four-star rank . It is equivalent to a full admiral in the Royal Navy or an air chief marshal in the Royal Air Force . Officers holding the ranks of lieutenant-general and major-general may be generically considered to be generals. A general's insignia is a crossed sword and baton. This appeared on its own for
52-413: The 9th Lancers . An enquiry within the regiment was carried out negligently, failing to identify the guilty parties, and Blood made a complacent report suggesting that the soldiers were entirely innocent. The furious Curzon wrote a lengthy minute demolishing Blood's careless reasoning and imposed a collective punishment on the regiment. In November 1907 Blood retired to London, where he continued to lead
65-663: The Bengal Sappers and Miners in 1885. After seven years he reached the rank of brigadier general, serving in the garrison at Rawalpindi , and then in the relief force known as the Chitral Expedition . He then commanded the Malakand Field Force and the Buner Field Force, relieving the garrison during the siege of Malakand . At the end of this command he was promoted to major general. He was appointed in command of
78-740: The Meerut District, in the Bengal Command , on 22 September 1898. Lord Kitchener succeeded as chief of command during the Second Boer War in late 1900, and requested Blood for service in South Africa, where he arrived in early March 1901. He spent six months in command of a division fighting in the Eastern Transvaal with the local rank of lieutenant general on the Staff from 1 April 1901. He
91-684: The Royal School, Banagher , Queen's College, Galway , and the Addiscombe Military College . He was commissioned in 1860 in the Royal Engineers as a temporary lieutenant in charge of signalling and pontoon bridge construction in India, and for brief periods in Zululand and South Africa. Promoted to captain in 1873, he served with British forces in the North-West Frontier (Jowaki). In 1879 he
104-568: The lower general officer ranks) is the highest rank achievable by serving officers of the British Army . The rank can also be held by Royal Marines officers in tri-service posts, for example, Generals Sir Gordon Messenger and Gwyn Jenkins , former and current Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff . It ranks above lieutenant-general and, in the Army, is subordinate to the rank of field marshal , which
117-583: The now obsolete rank of brigadier-general . A major-general has a pip over this emblem; a lieutenant-general a crown instead of a pip; and a full general both a pip and a crown. The insignia for the highest rank, that of Field Marshal , consists of crossed batons within a wreath and surmounted by a crown. The Story of the Malakand Field Force The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War
130-481: The operations therein recorded were carried out; by whose generalship they were brought to a successful conclusion; and to whose kindness the author is indebted for the most valuable and fascinating experience of his life. "Four Score Years and Ten" by Sir Bindon Blood. ASIN B00086SHYC Publisher G. Bell & Sons Ltd, First Edition (1 Jan 1933) Language English Hardcover 356 pages General (United Kingdom) General (or full general to distinguish it from
143-631: Was an 1898 book written by Winston Churchill ; it was his first published work of non-fiction. The book describes a military campaign by the British army on the North West Frontier (now western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan) in 1897. It is dedicated to General Bindon Blood . The story of the campaign and Churchill's part in it is told in Churchill's First War: Young Winston and the Fight Against
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#1733086326518156-405: Was mentioned in the last despatch by Lord Kitchener dated 23 June 1902. In late September 1901 he returned to India to take up the position of Commander-in-Chief Punjab Command , where he arrived the following month. He kept the local rank of lieutenant general. In 1902 General Blood clashed with the then Viceroy Lord Curzon over an incident involving the murder of an Indian cook by troopers of
169-583: Was sent back to Africa for the Anglo-Zulu War . He went on to fight in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and the Battle of Tell El Kebir . By 1882 he was a brevet lieutenant colonel. The following year, 1883, Blood married Charlotte E. Colvin, second daughter of Sir Auckland Colvin , a distinguished colonial administrator in India from a well-connected family . Then he returned to India and took command of
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