George Wolseley

Lieutenant-General Sir George Benjamin Wolseley KCB (1839- 1921) was an Indian Army officer.

Military career
Born the younger brother of Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, Wolseley was commissioned into the 84th Regiment of Foot in 1857 and saw active service in the response to the Indian Mutiny. He became Assistant Adjutant-General with the Candahar Field Force in 1878, Assistant Adjutant-General in Egypt in 1882 (seeing action again at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir in September of that year) and Assistant Adjutant-General in the Nile Expedition of 1884. He became commander of a brigade in Burma in 1889 (which secured the town of Wuntho in 1891) and General Officer Commanding the Lahore District in India in March 1895. He went on to be General Officer Commanding the forces in the Punjab in 1897 and Commander-in-Chief Madras Command in 1898.