Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Buller, Redvers Henry

by Thompson Cooper

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BULLER, Colonel Sir Redvers Henry, V.C., K.C.M.G., C.B., son of the late Mr. James Wentworth Buller, M.P., of Downes, Crediton, Devonshire, was born in 1839, entered the 60th Rifles in 1858, and attained the rank of colonel in 1879. He served successively in China (1860), with the Red River expedition (1870), in the Ashantee war (1875), in the Kaffir war (1878), and in the war in Zululand (1878–9), where he greatly distinguished himself, and won the Victoria Cross. He was created a Knight Commander of the Order of SS. Michael and George in Nov., 1882, for the services he rendered as Head of the Intelligence Department in Egypt.