Vincent Eyre

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Major-General
Battles/warsFirst Anglo-Afghan War
Indian Mutiny

active service in India and Afghanistan.[2]

Early life

Born in Portsdown, Portsmouth on 22 January 1811, Eyre was the third son of Captain Henry Eyre and was educated at Norwich School.[2]

Military career

Self-portrait of Lieutenant Vincent Eyre from Prison Sketches. Comprising portraits of the Cabul prisoners, and other subjects

In 1827, he entered the

British India and was then published in England as Military Operations at Cabul (1842). The Eyre family were rescued by Sir George Pollock in September 1842. In 1844 Eyre was appointed to command the artillery of the new Gwalior contingent. He was responsible for the relief of the Siege of Arrah. He took part in the Relief of Lucknow, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was promoted lieutenant colonel that year and brevet colonel
the following year.

In 1857 he founded

major-general.[3]

He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1867.[1]

Later activities

Finding himself in France during the Franco-Prussian War, Eyre set up an ambulance service under the auspices of the Red Cross. In his later years, he spent the winters in Rome. He died in Aix-les-Bains, France, on 22 September 1881.[1] His remains were brought to London and a tomb was erected for him in Kensal Green Cemetery. A sketch of his tomb is archived in the National Portrait Gallery.[5]

Photograph (1858–1861) of Mr and Mrs Eyre

Publications

  • Eyre, Vincent (1842). The Military Operations at Cabul, which Ended in the Retreat and Destruction of the British Army, January 1842 (1 ed.). London: John Murray.
  • —————— (1843). Prison Sketches, Comprising Portraits of the Cabul Prisoners, and Other Subjects. London: Dickinson & Son.
  • —————— (1867). "The Sikh and European Soldiers of our Indian Forces". The Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. 11 (43): 86–103.
    doi:10.1080/03071846709433586
    .
  • —————— (1869). A Retrospect of the Affghan War: With Reference to Passing Events in Central Asia. London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • —————— (1874). Lays of a Knight-Errant in Many Lands. London: Henry S. King & Co.
  • —————— (1875). The old stories of Rome: a Lent lecture in verse and prose, dedicated to the British and American Archaelogical Society. Rome: Tipografia Romana.
  • —————— (1879). Malleson, George Bruce (ed.). The Kabul Insurrection of 1841‒42. London: W. H. Allen & Company.

Further reading

References

  1. ^ a b c d Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Eyre, Vincent" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 18. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ a b Drake, W. (1880). "Reminisccences of the Late Vincent Eyre, K.C.B. (Part I)". The Norvicensian. Vol. 1. Norwich: Norwich School. p. 88.
  3. ^ a b Drake, W. (1880). "Reminisccences of the Late Vincent Eyre, K.C.B. (Part II)". The Norvicensian. Vol. 1. Norwich: Norwich School. pp. 100–103.
  4. ISBN 9780720123180
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  5. ^ "Tomb of Sir Vincent Eyre in Kensal Green Cemetery". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Eyre, Vincent". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 18. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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