John Elkington (British Army officer)
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Lieutenant General
John Henry Ford Elkington CB
(1830 – 21 February 1889) was a British Army
officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
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with the 6th Regiment of Foot in 1849. He served with his Regiment during the 7th and 8th Xhosa Wars
. He was appointed Assistant Quartermaster-General to the Ottoman Contingent during the Crimean War
and then became Aide-de-Camp
to Sir John Michel during the Indian Mutiny
. He continued to serve as Aide-de-Camp to Michel during the Second Opium War
. In 1880 he became Deputy Adjutant-General for the Auxiliary Forces at Army Headquarters.
He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
in 1885 and died in office in 1889. He was also Honorary Colonel of the Fortress and Railway Forces.
Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
John Henry Ford Elkington CB
Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
(1830 – 21 February 1889) was a British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
The Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey is the representative of the British monarch in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a Crown dependency of the British Crown. The role of the Lieutenant Governor is to act as the de facto head of state in Guernsey and as liaison between the governments of Guernsey and the...
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Military career
Elkington became a lieutenantLieutenant
A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...
with the 6th Regiment of Foot in 1849. He served with his Regiment during the 7th and 8th Xhosa Wars
Xhosa wars
The Xhosa Wars, also known as the Cape Frontier Wars, were a series of nine wars between the Xhosa people and European settlers, from 1779 to 1879 in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa....
. He was appointed Assistant Quartermaster-General to the Ottoman Contingent during the Crimean War
Crimean War
The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...
and then became Aide-de-Camp
Aide-de-camp
An aide-de-camp is a personal assistant, secretary, or adjutant to a person of high rank, usually a senior military officer or a head of state...
to Sir John Michel during the Indian Mutiny
Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...
. He continued to serve as Aide-de-Camp to Michel during the Second Opium War
Second Opium War
The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Dynasty of China, lasting from 1856 to 1860...
. In 1880 he became Deputy Adjutant-General for the Auxiliary Forces at Army Headquarters.
He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
The Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey is the representative of the British monarch in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a Crown dependency of the British Crown. The role of the Lieutenant Governor is to act as the de facto head of state in Guernsey and as liaison between the governments of Guernsey and the...
in 1885 and died in office in 1889. He was also Honorary Colonel of the Fortress and Railway Forces.