About Henry Parr
Lived 1847 – 1914 (aged 66). Henry Parr was a military personnel.
Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr (24 July 1847 – 4 April 1914) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding North-Western District.
Military career Educated at Twyford School, Hallam Parr was commissioned as an ensign in the 13th Regiment of Foot on 8 September 1865. He fought in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879, in the First Boer War in 1881 and in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882. He also saw action at the Battle of Tamai in March 1884 and took part in the Nile Expedition later that year during the Mahdist War. He became Commander, Shorncliffe Garrison, in July 1898, General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District in October 1899 and General Officer Commanding North-Western District in May 1902; he retired in November 1903.
He was colonel of the Somerset Light Infantry from May 1910 until his death in 1914.
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English army officer
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Henry Parr was born on 24 July 1847.
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Henry Parr died on 4 April 1914.
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Henry Parr was a military personnel.
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