About Francis Ward
Lived 1840 – 1919 (aged 78–79). Francis Ward was a British military leader.
Major-General Francis William Ward (1840–1919) was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior ceremonial position in the Royal Artillery after the Sovereign.
Military career Ward was born in 1840, the son of John Ward. He was educated at the East India Company's Military College at Addiscombe in 1856–7, before entering the Bengal Artillery.
He served on the North West Frontier from 1863 to 1864 and took part in the Second Anglo-Afghan War from 1879 to 1880.
He was made Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery on 1 May 1902 and then held the position of Master Gunner, St James's Park immediately after World War I.
He died in 1919 in London, England.
Family He married Alice MacMullen, daughter of General S. F. MacMullen of the Bengal Cavalry in 1862.
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