About William Salmond
Lived 1840 – 1932 (aged 92). William Salmond was a British engineer and military personnel.
Major-General Sir William Salmond, (25 August 1840 – 8 November 1932) was a British Army officer.
Military career Grandson of Major General James Hanson Salmond, Military Secretary to the East India Company and author of The Mysore War, William Salmond was born the son of Lieutenant Colonel James Salmond (1805–1880) and Emma Isabella Coke (d. 1886), daughter of D'Ewes Coke (1774–1856) and Harriet Wright. He studied at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in October 1857. In the October 1902 South African Honours list, he was promoted to a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB), and he was invested with the insignia of the order by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902.
Salmond died at his home at Whaddon House near Bruton in Somerset on 8 November 1932.
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British general
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William Salmond was born on 25 August 1840 in York.
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William Salmond died on 8 November 1932 in Somerset.
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William Salmond was an engineer and military personnel.
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