Richard Luard

Lieutenant-General Richard George Amherst Luard, CB (29 July 1827 – 24 July 1891) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada.

Military career

Born the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Luard and educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Luard was commissioned into the 51st Regiment of Foot in 1845.^[1] Later that year he transferred to the 3rd Regiment of Foot.^[1] In 1854 he transferred to the 77th Regiment of Foot and served in the Crimean War as a Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General: he was mentioned in despatches for his part in the Siege of Sevastopol.^[1] He served in the Second Opium War taking part in an expedition to China in 1857.^[1] In 1860 he was appointed Assistant Inspector of Volunteers^[1] and in 1875 he was made Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General for the Northern District in England.^[1]

In 1880 he became General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada.^[1] He sought to introduce permanent infantry training schools but also upset Adolphe-Philippe Caron, the Minister of Militia and Defence, through his constant criticism of amateur soldiers.^[1] He was asked to resign and, in 1884, returned to England to command a Brigade at Aldershot Garrison.^[1]

Family

Luard was married on 8 October 1863 to Hannah Chamberlain.^[2] They had seven children including Edward Bourryau Luard (1870–1916), who achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and was killed near Ypres in the First World War.^[3][4]

References

External links

• Richard George Amherst Luard at The Canadian Encyclopedia

v t e Commanders of the Canadian Army General Officers Commanding Edward Smyth Richard Luard Frederick Middleton Ivor Herbert William Gascoigne Edward Hutton Richard Haly Earl of Dundonald Chiefs of the General Staff Percy Lake William Otter Colin Mackenzie Willoughby Gwatkin James MacBrien Herbert Thacker Andrew McNaughton Ernest Ashton Thomas Anderson Harry Crerar Kenneth Stuart John Murchie Charles Foulkes Guy Simonds Howard Graham Samuel Clark Geoffrey Walsh Commanders, Mobile Command Jean Allard William Anderson Gilles Turcot William Milroy Stanley Waters Jacques Chouinard Jean Paradis Charles Belzile James Fox Kent Foster Jim Gervais Chiefs of the Land Staff Gord Reay Maurice Baril William Leach Mike Jeffery Rick Hillier Marc Caron Andrew Leslie Commanders of the Canadian Army Peter Devlin Marquis Hainse