Thomas Durand Baker
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Military career
Educated at Cheltenham College, Baker was commissioned into the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment in 1854.[1] He served in the Crimean War and was present at the Siege of Sevastapol.[1] He was involved in suppressing the Indian Mutiny in 1857.[1]
In 1863 he was deployed to New Zealand where he served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General and then Assistant Adjutant-General.[1] He was involved in the capture of Orakau in 1864.[2]
Then in 1873 he was despatched, during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War, to West Africa where he served as Assistant Adjutant, then Quartermaster-General and then finally as Chief of Staff.[1]
He was deployed to Afghanistan in 1879 where he became a Brigade Commander and took part in the Battle of Kandahar in 1880.[1] In 1882 he went to Ireland as Deputy Quartermaster-General and then as Deputy Adjutant-General.[1] He became Adjutant-General, India in 1884 and General Officer Commanding a Division of the Bengal Army in 1886.[1]
His final appointment was as Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1890; he died while still in office in 1893.[1]
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