3-078-152 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Field-Marshal Sir Frederick Paul Haines, G.C.B., 1890. 'This distinguished military officer...was Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India from 1876 to 1881...[and directed] operations in the Afghan War...[He was] promoted, in 1849, to be Major of the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers, and to be Lieutenant-Colonel in 1850. He was Colonel of the 8th Regiment of Infantry from 1854 to 1874, and commanded it during the Crimean War...Ten years before, as a subaltern officer, he had won distinction and promotion in the campaign of the Sutlej, where he was severely wounded; and he also took part in the War of the Punjaub...Colonel Haines afterwards held a staff appointment in Ireland, as Deputy Adjutant-General, and...was placed in command of the Dublin district...On his return to England he was appointed Quartermaster-General at the Horse Guards; but the command of the Madras Army became vacant, and was conferred in 1871 on Sir Frederick, made a Knight of the Bath, with the rank of Lieutenant-General. He held this post during five years, till he was appointed Commander-in-Chief in India, and received also the honours of Grand Cross of the Bath, to which have been added those of the Star of India and the Order of the Indian Empire'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.