General Sir Alexander WALLACE and family in India pre 1903

[liverpool annie]

I found 1922 Honours List ... but I believe there is a mistake ... if you click on Alexander Wallace ... it takes you to an American ... ! ( my opinion is - that's wrong !! ) but I can't find him in the Gazette .... ( though I'm not the sharpest knife in the box when it comes to the Gazette ... but I usually find something !!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Necrothesp/Honours_Lists/1922_Honours_Lists

Annie 

[ShaunJ]

The Wikipedia link is definitely wrong.

The Gazette entry is on page 4321 top right (3 June 1922)

[liverpool annie]

Thanks Shaun ! 

I can't find him mentioned anywhere though .... in dispatches .... promotions ......   

Annie

[ShaunJ]

The Indian Army List for 1 January 1912 records the following dates:

First Commission 11/9/1876
CB  26/6/1908
Promotion to Major General 3/5/1911

In 1912 he was CO of the Jubbulpore Brigade

[ShaunJ]

The British Library has this marriage transcription :

22 January 1845 at St Andrew's, Calcutta

Alexander WALLACE, a Merchant, aged 30  and Helen Davidson PATON aged 19
Parent's name Fraser

http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/FullDisplay.aspx?RecordId=014-000285628

[liverpool annie]

By 1914 .... he must have been gone from there !!  

Jubbulpore Brigade, Jubbulpore [Major General Fanshawe]

2 Lancers

32 Lancers

2 Cheshire

1 York & Lancaster

2 East Yorkshire

16 Rajputs

63 Light Infantry

97 Infantry

98 Infantry

71, 90 Companies RGA

http://www.orbat.com/site/history/historical/india/army1914.html

I keep finding all his contemporaries but not him !!........... !! here's another one !!

http://www.rootschat.com/links/02hm/

[liverpool annie]

Wonder .... what's in the Who's Who ? I think Andy Pay has one ... I'll ask him !!  unless you have one Shaun ??

Name: Alexander WALLACE
Event type: Biography
Start date:
Start year: 1858
End date:
End year: 1922
Biographical notes: Maj-Gen Sir, Indian Army; Who was Who II p.1083
Transcribed by: British Library
India Office Records Reference:
 
Source name: Who was Who II p.1083

[liverpool annie]

I found 2 Alexanders on Fibis ..... I wondered if one was a child ... and one was the father ... what do you think ??

Burial Presidency  Madras   
Burial Year  1855   
First Names  Alexander   
Surname  Wallace   
Prefix  N/2   
Volume Number  35   
Folio  77   
LDS Film Reference  498596   
IOR Reference  Z/N/2   
Source Year  1855   

http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=243429

Burial Presidency  Madras   
Burial Year  1853   
First Names  Alexander   
Surname  Wallace   
Prefix  N/2   
Volume Number  32   
Folio  347   
LDS Film Reference  498596   
IOR Reference  Z/N/2   
Source Year  1853   

http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=243276

[ShaunJ]

Both those burials would be too early for the General's father, Annie...and Madras is probably too far south ....