Walter Fane
Walter Fane | |
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| File:Lieutenant Walter Fane, Fane’s Horse - NAM LW NARM 1013601.jpg Walter Fane, as a Lieutenant, ca. 1860 | |
| Born | 1828 |
| Died | 1885 (aged 56–57) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom United Kingdom |
| Branch | File:Ensign of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps.svg British Indian Army |
| Rank | Major general |
| Commands | Fane's Horse |
| Conflicts | Indian Rebellion Second Opium War |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Major-General Walter Fane CB (1828–1885) was a British Indian Army officer who served in Central India on the North West Frontier as well as in China during the Opium Wars. Fane raised a troop of irregular cavalry to fight in China made up of Indian volunteers and they went on to become Fane's Horse, a regiment that remains part of Pakistan's armed forces.
Life
[edit | edit source]Walter Fane, a member of the Fane family, was born in 1828 in Fulbeck Lincolnshire. He was the son of the Rev. Edward Fane of Fulbeck Hall.[1]
Army career
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He entered the army in 1845 and became a lieutenant in 1853. He served in the Punjab Irregular Cavalry on the North West frontier where they fought a number of engagements against the hill tribes.[1]
During the Indian Rebellion Fane fought against Tantya Tope and he was present when the Indian rebel leader was captured and executed.[1]
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In 1860 Fane raised the irregular cavalry force of Fane's Horse to fight in China during the Second Opium War. Fane's horse fought in the engagements of Sinho, Chinkiawbaw, Pulli-chi-on as well as in the sacking of Peking under Fane's cousin Field Marshal Sir John Michel. For these services he was nominated as a Companion of the Order of the Bath.[1]
Later life
[edit | edit source]Fane was also an artist and had limited success throughout his lifetime, and he was the most successful member of a moderately artistic family. He married but had no children and he died aged 58 in Fulbeck, where is buried.[1]
References
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- 1828 births
- 1885 deaths
- British East India Company Army officers
- British Indian Army generals
- Fane family
- Companions of the Order of the Bath
- British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
- British military personnel of the Second Opium War
- People from South Kesteven District
- Military personnel from Lincolnshire