Lieutenant General Charles Osborne Creagh-Osborne CB (20 December 1823 – 17 August 1892) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Staff College, Sandhurst.

Military career

Creagh-Osborne was commissioned as an ensign into the 6th Regiment of Foot in 1841. He served with the Scinde Camel Corps during Sir Charles Napier's campaign in India in 1842. He also took part in the response to Indian Mutiny of 1857 being present at the assault on Jagdispur. He became Superintendent of Garrison Instructors in India in 1873 and Commandant of the Staff College, Sandhurst in 1878. There is a memorial to him in Boldre Churchyard.

Charles Creagh-Osborne

Family

In 1866 he married Harriet Frances Crozier; they had three sons and three daughters.

Charles Creagh-Osborne

References

1823 births

1892 deaths

British Army lieutenant generals

Companions of the Order of the Bath

Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers officers

Commandants of the Staff College, Camberley

British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Charles Creagh-Osborne