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Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly

Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly

British Army general

Major General Richard Hebden O'Grady-Haly, KCB, DSO (22 February 1841 – 8 July 1911) was a British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada from 1900 to 1902.

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Military career

Born the son of General Sir William O'Grady Haly, O'Grady-Haly was commissioned into the British Army in 1858.[1]

He served with the Nile Expedition in 1882 and took part in the action of El Maffar, both actions at Kassassin and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir.[1]

He commanded the Second Column of the Hazara Field Force and was mentioned in dispatches in 1888.[1]

He commanded the 1st Battalion the Suffolk Regiment in India and went on to be Assistant Adjutant-General in Belfast in 1891.[1] He was appointed General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada in 1900.[2]

He also was a surveyor and when he was a lieutenant colonel, and invented a compass clinometer system which was built by Elliott Bros. Pictures of the compass can be seen in the online compass museum COMPASSIPEDIA.[3]

Family

In 1865 he married Geraldine Mary Gostling and they went on to have four daughters.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Anglo-Boer War
  2. [2]
    Lord Strathcona's Horse
  3. [3]
    COMPASSIPEDIA, the Online Compass Museum
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