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About Robert Home
Robert Home, was an English officer in the British Army, rising to the rank of colonel in the Royal Engineers. After ably reporting on the defence of the Canadian frontier in 1864, impressing the authorities, he was appointed deputy-assistant quartermaster-general at Aldershot in 1866 and secretary of the Royal Engineers standing scientific committee in 1870, and entered the topographical department of the War Office in 1871. Promoted to major, he was commanding Royal Engineer during the Ashantee War of 1873. He was appointed assistant quartermaster-general at headquarters in 1876, reported on the defences of Constantinople during the Russo-Turkish War, and was breveted colonel. He published A Précis of Modern Tactics in 1873.
Everything about Robert Home →- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1837
- Died
- 1879