James Sayer
The basics
Quick facts
Gender:
Male
Birth:
1826
Death:
1908
The details
Biography
Introduction
Lieutenant-General Sir James Robertson Steadman Sayer KCB (1826-1908) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Western District.
Military career
Sayer was commissioned as a cornet in the King's Dragoon Guards on 23 May 1845. He served as a junior officer in the Crimean War and subsequently served in the British Indian Army. He became General Officer Commanding Western District in England in April 1883. He was also Colonel of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards and, in that capacity, he was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1906 Birthday Honours.