Although this should have been recorded in the British Indian Army records, the printed copy given to an officer and perhaps his superiors seldom seems to have survived. General Sir Peter Stark Lumsden, G.C.B., C.S.I., A.D.C. [1829-1918], had a distinguished career in India, China, and Afghanistan and was the author of the standard work on his brother's regiment, Lumsden of the Guides. He served in the Bhutan War of 1854, was on a special mission to Kandahar in 1857, served in the China War with Napier, was QMG India 1868-72, acted as Resident Hyderabad in 1873, was Chief of Staff in India in 1879, and headed the British Commission for the Demarkation of the N.W. The boundary of Afghanistan 1884-5. He was made G.C.B. and an ADC to Queen Victoria.
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