Richard Westmacott (Indian Army officer)

Major-General Sir Richard Westmacott (1841–1925), served in the British Bombay Army and after its amalgamation in the British Indian Army. He was awarded the K.C.B. in 1898 and the D.S.O. in 1890.

Biography
Richard Westmacott was born in 1841. The son of the Reverend Horatio Westmacott, he was educated at Rossal. He entered the Bombay Army in 1859 and served in the Indian Mutiny (1857–1858).

Westmacott served in the Second Afghan War between 1879 and 1880, and Soudan Expedition in 1885. He commanded the Advance Column on the Chin Lushai Expedition, 1879 to 1880. He commanded the 29th Bombay Pioneers from 1887 to 1894 and he was A.A.G., Poona, 1894–1895.

Westmacott was Colonel on the Staff 1895–1896 and commanded the Nagpur District from 1896 to 1899. During this time he also commanded 1st Field Force in 1897 and 4th Brigade on the Tirah Campaign (1897–1898). Commanding First Class District. Mhow, 1900–1903. He was Colonel, 128th Pioneers in 1904.

Family
In 1889, Westmacott married Rose Margaret, daughter of Major-General Francis James Caldecott, C.B.. They had one son Guy Randolph Westmacott (born 1891) D.S.O who joined the British Army and served as an officer in the Grenadier Guards during the Great War before transferring to the Royal Air Force as shortly before the war ended in 1918. He may have been a Senior British Intelligence Officer during the Second World War.