NEW FIELD-MARSHALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8264, 24 May 1890, Page 5

NEW FIELD-MARSHALS.

GENERALS SIMMONS AND HAINES PROMOTED. London, May 22,

Generals Sir J. L. A. Simmons and Sir F. P. Haines have been promoted to the rank of field-marshals.

_ General Sir Frederick Paul Haines, G.C.8., K.C.N.1., son of the late Mr. Gregory Haines, C.8., of Dublin, Commissary-General of the Forces, by Harriet, daughter of Mr. John Eldridge, of Kerkl'ord, Sussex, was born in 1817. He entered the army as ensign in 1839, became captain in 1840, lieutenant-colonel in 1859, colonel in 1554, and major-general in 1804. At the beginning of the war on the Sutlej in 1845, lie was appointed to act as military secretary to Sir Hugh Gough, then commander-in-chief in India. He was present at the battles of Moodkee and Ferozeshah, and upon the latter occasion he was severely wounded by grape-shot, his horse being at the same moment killed under him. For his conduct in this campaign he was promoted on the recommendation of Lord Gough, and received a medal and one clasp. He' served also in the same capacity throughout the. Punjab campaign of 1848 and 1849, taking part in the affair of the outposts at Ranmuggur, the passage of the Chenab, and the battles of Chillianwallah and Goojerat. Ho served in the 21st Fusileers through the campaign of the Crimea in 1554-55, up to the siege of Sebastopol. He was created a K.C.I), in 1871, became a lieutenant-general in 1873, and brevet-general in 1877, in which year lie was created a G.C.B. lie was com-mander-in-chief of the Madras army from May, 1871,. to 1874, when he was appointed colonel of the 104 th Regiment (Bengal Fusiliers). In 1870 he received the local rank of ceneral in India, and some time later was appointed commander-in-chief in India. He held this post the customary period of five years. General Haines served with distinction in the Afghan campaign in 1880, and received the thanks of Parliament " for the ability and judgment with which he directed operations." General Sir John Lintorn Simmons, G.C.8., son of Captain Thomas Frederick Simmons, R.A., was born at Langford, Somerset, in 18-1, and educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and at the Military Academy, Woolwich. He entered the Royal Engineers in 1837, and after serving for several years in North America was appointed Inspector of Railways, December, IS4O, and in 1850 .Secretary to the Railway Commissioners. Upon the dissolution of that commission lie was transferred to the Board of Trade as secretary to the Railway Department. Jn ISo.'i, being in Turkey, he was specially employed by the late Viscount Stratford de Rcdclitle on several important missions, and became Her Majesty s Commissioner with the Turkish army under the command of Omar Pasha, in which position he served on the Danube. In December IST) he went to the Crimea to concert with the allied commanders-in-chief. He took part in the battle of Eupatoria, in the siegs of Sebastopol, and was present at the forced passage of the Irigur, where he commanded the division which crossed the river and turned the enemy's position, capturing his works and guns. He was the British Commissioner for the'regulation of the TurcoRussian boundary in Asia in 1857 ; ConsulGeneral at Warsaw from 1858 to I860: and appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, March 18, 1869, and Governor the succeeding year, which appointment he held till June, 1875. He was attached to the special embassy during the Congress at Berlin, and was appointed to assist Lord Ampthill at the Conference at Berlin on the Greek Frontier Question. He has received the Crimean medal and clasp, the Turkish gold medal for the Dannbian campaign, a sworcl of honour from the Turkish Government, the Third Class of the Order of the Mejidie, and the Fourth Class of the Legion of "Honour. He was made C.B. in 1855, K.C.B. in 1869, G.C.B. in 1878. He is now Governor of Malta, to which post he was appointed April 19, 1884.