Thomas Durand Baker

Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Durand Baker KCB (23 March 1837 – 9 February 1893) was a British army officer, and Quartermaster-General to the Forces.

Sir Thomas Baker
Born23 March 1837
Died9 February 1893 (aged 55)
Pau, France
Buried
Bishop's Tawton, United Kingdom
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1854–1893
RankLieutenant General
Battles/warsCrimean War
Third Anglo-Ashanti War
Second Anglo-Afghan War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Military career

Educated at Cheltenham College, Baker was commissioned into the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment in 1854.[1] He served in the Crimean War and was present at the Siege of Sevastapol.[1] He was involved in suppressing the Indian Mutiny in 1857.[1]

In 1863 he was deployed to New Zealand where he served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General and then Assistant Adjutant-General.[1] He was involved in the capture of Orakau in 1864.[2]

Then in 1873 he was despatched, during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War, to West Africa where he served as Assistant Adjutant, then Quartermaster-General and then finally as Chief of Staff.[1]

He was deployed to Afghanistan in 1879 where he became a Brigade Commander and took part in the Battle of Kandahar in 1880.[1] In 1882 he went to Ireland as Deputy Quartermaster-General and then as Deputy Adjutant-General.[1] He became Adjutant-General, India in 1884 and General Officer Commanding a Division of the Bengal Army in 1886.[1]

His final appointment was as Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1890; he died while still in office in 1893.[1]

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References
  1. Thomas Durand Baker at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. Tuapeka Times, Rōrahi XXV, Putanga 1986, 5 Paengawhāwhā 1893, Page 4
Military offices
Preceded by
George Greaves		 Adjutant-General, India
1884–1887		 Succeeded by
William Elles
Preceded by
Sir Redvers Buller		 Quartermaster-General to the Forces
1890–1893		 Succeeded by
Sir Robert Biddulph
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