Henry Brackenbury

General Sir Henry Brackenbury GCB KCSI PC was a British Army officer who was assistant to Garnet Wolseley in the 1870s and became part of his Ring of loyal officers. He also wrote several books of military history and memoirs.

Henry Brackenbury was born in Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire onSeptember 1837. He was educated at Tonbridge School and Eton, then at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He joined the British Army in 1856, served in the Central Indian Campaign in 185758 and observed the FrancoPrussian War in 187071.

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