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General Rodolph de Salis,[1] (St. George, Dublin 9 May 1811; 27 Ashley Place, Westminster, 13 March 1880, buried Harlington, Middlesex), CB, OBE (1861), Légion d’honneur, and Order of Medjidie; of Dawley/Harlington, Middlesex; Dunleer, co. Louth; and Brackagh, Co. Armagh; Colonel of the 8th Hussars.[2]
Second son of Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio, he was educated at Eton College, Heidleberg University and Oriel College, Oxford.[3]
Career
Cornet, 17 December 1830; Lieutenant, 28 June 1833; Captain, 13 July 1838; Major, 19 February 1847; Brevet Lt. Colonel, 28 November 1854; Lt. Colonel, 2 October 1856; Colonel, 20 March 1858.[4]
He fought at Alma, Inkerman, Balaclava, Tchernaya, Kertch, Sebastopol, Central India (& Rajpootana), Kotah ki Serai, Sindwaho, Delhi, Koondrye, Chundaree, Gwalior, and Boordah.[5]
Marriage
He married in Paris, 8.11.1875, Augusta Letitia Robinson,[6] of 10 Marble Arch, London, (Manchester, 1839- Westminster, 21 or 24.2.1929), (widow of General Adolfus Derville, (1801-1874), Indian Army.[7] She died leaving effects worth £86,728.[8]
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Rokeby Hall, near Dunleer, his parents leased this during his youth.
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Rodolph J. H. L. De Salis.
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M. le Colonel de Salis' photopass or CARTE DE SEMAINE, for the Exposition Universelle de 1867 A PARIS valable jusqu'au AVRIL 23.[1] [2] Photograph probably by Camille Silvy.
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Lt. General Rodolph. Photographed c.1870.
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General Rodolph.
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Rodolph in his sister-in-law's album.
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Rodolph's Order of the Medjidie.
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One of Rodolph's Crimean War medals.
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De Salis' own Légion d'honneur medal.
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Indian Mutiny Medal with Central India clasp belonging to General De Salis.
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List of battles De Salis fought in, as seen on a monumental inscription in a Middlesex church.
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His widow, Augusta (d. 1929).
- ^ He stayed at the Hotel de normandie, rue Saint-Honoré.
- ^ He was there to visit his brother, William's stand for the Australian State of Victoria.
References and Notes
- Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Roy Dutton, 2007.
- ↑ His Baptismal names were: Rodolphus Johannes Leslie Hibernicus
- ↑ De Salis Family : English Branch, by Rachel Fane De Salis, Henley-on-Thames, 1934.
- ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251-253).
- ↑ The Annual Army List, 1865, edited by Colonel H. G. Hart, published by John Murray, London.
- ↑ The Annual Army List, 1865, edited by Colonel H. G. Hart, published by John Murray, London.
- ↑ Info from http://www.bellsite.id.au/.
- ↑ They married in 1863 (info from Geni).
- ↑ Info from Family Division, Holborn