DATES OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR HARRY SMITH’S COMMISSIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
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REGIMENTAL RANK.
Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion 95th Regiment 8 May, 1805
Lieutenant 15 Aug. 1805
Captain 28 Feb. 1812
Major, unattached 29 Dec. 1826
Lieut.-Colonel, unattached 22 July, 1830
Lieut.-Colonel, 3rd Foot 13 May, 1842
Lieut.-Colonel, unattached 25 Aug. 1843
Colonel, 47th Foot 18 Jan. 1847
Colonel, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade 16 April, 1847
Colonel, 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade 18 Jan. 1855
ARMY RANK.
Major 29 Sept. 1814
Lieut.-Colonel 18 June, 1815
Colonel 10 Jan. 1837
Local rank of Major-General in the East Indies 21 Aug. 1840
Major-General 9 Nov. 1846
Local rank of Lieut.-General in South Africa 1847-1852
Lieut.-General 20 June, 1854
STAFF APPOINTMENTS.
Peninsular War.
A.D.C. to Colonel T. S. Beckwith Oct. 1810
Brigade Major, 2nd Brigade, Light Division under Major-General Drummond, Major-General Vandeleur, Major-General Skerrett, and Colonel Colborne successively Mar. 1811 to the end of the war, Mar. 1814
Washington Expedition.
D.A.G. to Major-General R. Ross 1814
New Orleans Expedition.
A.A.G. to Major-General Sir E. Pakenham 1814
Military Secretary to Major-General Sir J. Lambert 1815
Waterloo Campaign.
Brigade-Major, afterwards A.Q.M.G. to 6th Division (Major-General Sir J. Lambert and Major-General Sir Lowry Cole successively) 1815
[Returns to his regiment.]
Occupation of France.
Major de Place of Cambray 1815-1818
[Returns to his regiment.]
Glasgow.
Major of Brigade to Major-General Sir T. Reynell (commanding Western District) and Lieut-General Sir T. Bradford (Commander-in-Chief in Scotland) successively 1819-1825
[Returns to his regiment.]
Nova Scotia.
A.D.C. to Lieut.-General Sir James Kempt, Governor 1826
Jamaica.
D.Q.M.G. under Lieut.-General Sir John Keane, Governor 1827
Cape of Good Hope.
D.Q.M.G. under Lieut.-General Sir Lowry Cole, Lieut.-General Sir B. D’Urban, Major-General Sir G. T. Napier, Governors, successively 1828-1840
Chief of the Staff under Sir Benjamin D’Urban in the Kafir War 1835
India.
A.G. to Her Majesty’s Forces, under Lieut.-General Sir Jasper Nicolls and Lieut.-General Sir Hugh Gough, Commanders-in-Chief, successively 1840-1845
Sikh War.
In Command of the 1st Division Infantry 1845-1846
Cape of Good Hope.
Governor and Commander-in-Chief 1847-1852
Home Staff.
In Command of the Western Military District 1853-1854
In Command of the Northern and Midland Military Districts 1854-1859
STEPS IN THE ORDER OF THE BATH.
C.B. for Waterloo 1815
K.C.B. for Maharajpore 1844
G.C.B. for Aliwal and Sobraon 1846