About Alfred Horsford
Lived 1818 – 1885 (aged 66–67). Alfred Horsford was a British military personnel.
General Sir Alfred Hastings Horsford (3 April 1816 – 13 September 1885) was a senior British Army officer who served as Military Secretary.
Military career Horsford was born in Bath, the son of Maj.-Gen. George Horsford and Mary Ann Brocksopp. He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1833.
He served in the Cape Frontier War in 1847 and was Commanding Officer of 1st Bn the Rifle Brigade during the 8th Xhosa War in 1852.
He was made Deputy Adjutant-General at Army Headquarters in 1860, a Brigade commander at Aldershot in 1866, Major-General on the General Staff at Malta in 1869 and General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District in January 1872. He went on to be Military Secretary in 1874.
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British Army general
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Alfred Horsford was born in 1818 in Bath.
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Alfred Horsford died on 13 September 1885 in Munlochy.
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