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(HARNESS) COLLINSON, General.
General Sir Henry Drury Harness.
Colonel Commandant Royal Engineers. The Material in this Memoir was collected and arranged by the Late General Collinson and edited by General Webber.
Publisher: Royal Engineers Institute Committee], 1903
Stock code: 73510
Price: £75 Currency Conversion
First edition. Harness served as instructor of fortification at the Royal Military Academy; secretary of the Railway commission; deputy master of the Royal Mint; commissioner of public works in Ireland; director of the Royal Engineer Establishment at Chatham. "On the outbreak of the Indian mutiny Harness was given the command of the Royal Engineers of the force under Lord Clyde. He took part in the operations at Cawnpore, the siege and capture of Lucknow, and the subsequent operations in Rohilkhand and Oudh. He was mentioned in dispatches, thanked by the governor-general in council, and made a CB" (ODNB). Includes a chapter of over 60 pages on Harness's services. Not in Ladendorf or Sorsky.
Octavo. Original plum cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board. 2 folding tables. A little rubbed and soiled, blind stamps to the front free endpaper and title page, light toning, a very good copy.
