Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly explained

Richard O'Grady Haly
Birth Date:22 February 1841
Birth Place:Frant, Sussex
Death Place:Camberley, Surrey
Placeofburial:Frimley, Surrey
Allegiance:United Kingdom
Serviceyears:1858–c.1902
Rank:Major General
Commands:General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada
1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment
Battles:Mahdist War
Second Boer War
Awards:Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order
Mentioned in dispatches
Relations:General Sir William O'Grady Haly (father)

Major General Richard Hebden O'Grady-Haly, (22 February 1841 – 8 July 1911) was a British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada from 1900 to 1902.

Military career

Born the son of General Sir William O'Grady Haly, O'Grady-Haly was commissioned into the British Army in 1858.[1]

He served with the Nile Expedition in 1882 and took part in the action of El Maffar, both actions at Kassassin and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir.[1]

He commanded the Second Column of the Hazara Field Force and was mentioned in dispatches in 1888.[1]

He commanded the 1st Battalion the Suffolk Regiment in India and went on to be Assistant Adjutant-General in Belfast in 1891.[1] He was appointed General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada in 1900.[2]

He also was a surveyor and when he was a lieutenant colonel, and invented a compass clinometer system which was built by Elliott Bros. Pictures of the compass can be seen in the online compass museum COMPASSIPEDIA.[3]

Family

In 1865 he married Geraldine Mary Gostling and they went on to have four daughters.[1]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.angloboerwar.com/DSO%20pre-BW/O/ogradyhaly_rh.htm Anglo-Boer War
  2. http://www.strathconas.ca/pdf_files/regtmanual2ndedition.pdf Lord Strathcona's Horse
  3. http://www.compassmuseum.com/geo/geo_2.htm#ELLIOTT COMPASSIPEDIA, the Online Compass Museum