William Hope Meiklejohn

William Hope Meiklejohn

William Meiklejohn
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  British Indian Army
Rank Brigadier-General
Commands held Malakand Field Force
Battles/wars Siege of Malakand 26 July – 2 August 1897
Awards Companion in The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Order of St Michael and St George

Brigadier-General William Hope Meiklejohn CB CMG[1] was a British military commander who, as a colonel, was in charge of the British garrison during the siege of Malakand in northern India from 26 July to 2 August 1897 and who later led a relief force to the besieged fort of Chakdara along with Sir Bindon Blood,[2] fighting against 50,000–100,000 Pashtun tribesmen[3][4] and suffering only 206 casualties. Meiklejohn was later credited for his skills in providing such a victory in dispatches sent to the military government in British India.[5]

In 1893, Meiklejohn married Maud Beamish, daughter of Rear-Admiral Henry Hamilton Beamish. [6]

In August 1901, then Major-General Meiklejohn was posted at Lucknow, in British India, and appointed in command of the district at Derajat.[7]

Notes

  1. Wylly p. 138
  2. BBC News Rare British India documents surface retrieved 2 June 2007
  3. Wilkinson-Latham p. 20
  4. Gore p. 405
  5. Dispatches from Major-General G de C Morton, 15 September 1897, cited in The Risings on the North-west Frontier, The Pioneer press, 1898 appendix III
  6. "Sitter: Lady Meiklejohn, née Maud Louisa Hamilton Beamish ( ).". Lafayette Negative Archive.
  7. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Monday, 5 August 1901. (36525), p. 8.

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