Major-General Sir Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly, KCB (22 February 1841 - 8 July 1911) 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 and served as General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada

General Officer Commanding the Forces (Canada)

The General Officer Commanding the Forces was the most senior member of the Canadian Army from 1875 until 1904. With to the withdrawal of the majority of British forces in Canada in 1906, the position was replaced by the Chief of the General Staff which title was used until 1964 when the...

 from 1900 to 1902.

Military career

Born the son of General

General

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 Sir William O'Grady Haly

William O'Grady Haly

Sir William O’Grady Haly was an English General who was the general officer commanding British forces in North America.Haly fought in the Crimean War. He was the father of Major General Sir Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly....

, O'Grady Haly was commissioned into the 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...

 in 1858.

He served with the Nile Expedition

Nile Expedition

The Nile Expedition, sometimes called the Gordon Relief Expedition , was a British mission to relieve Major-General Charles George Gordon at Khartoum, Sudan. Gordon had been sent to the Sudan to help Egyptians evacuate from Sudan after Britain decided to abandon the country in the face of a...

 in 1882 and took part in the action of El Maffar, both actions at Kassassin

Kassassin

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 and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir.

He commanded the Second Column of the Hazara Field Force and was Mentioned in Despatches in 1888.

He commanded the 1st Battalion the Suffolk Regiment

Suffolk Regiment

The Suffolk Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army with a history dating back to 1685. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated with the Royal Norfolk Regiment as the 1st East Anglian Regiment in 1959...

 in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 and went on to be Assistant Adjutant-General in Belfast

Belfast

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 in 1891. He was appointed General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada

General Officer Commanding the Forces (Canada)

The General Officer Commanding the Forces was the most senior member of the Canadian Army from 1875 until 1904. With to the withdrawal of the majority of British forces in Canada in 1906, the position was replaced by the Chief of the General Staff which title was used until 1964 when the...

in 1900.