iBet uBet web content aggregator. Adding the entire web to your favor.
iBet uBet web content aggregator. Adding the entire web to your favor.



Link to original content: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Major_Downes
About: Major Downes

About: Major Downes

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Major General Major Francis Downes, CMG (10 February 1834 – 15 October 1923) was a British Army officer, who served as commandant of the colonial forces in South Australia. Downes was the son of William Downes, of Dedham, Essex, England, and was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered the Royal Artillery in 1852, was promoted lieutenant colonel in 1877, colonel in 1882, and major general in 1884, the year of his retirement. He served in the Crimean War in 1855 (medal with clasps and Turkish medal); was instructor in Fortifications at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1858–59; commanded the Royal Artillery on Mauritius in 1863–65, and on Saint Helena in 1869–71; was for five years Instructor to the Artillery School for Militia and Volunteer Officers; and subsequent

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Major General Major Francis Downes, CMG (10 February 1834 – 15 October 1923) was a British Army officer, who served as commandant of the colonial forces in South Australia. Downes was the son of William Downes, of Dedham, Essex, England, and was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered the Royal Artillery in 1852, was promoted lieutenant colonel in 1877, colonel in 1882, and major general in 1884, the year of his retirement. He served in the Crimean War in 1855 (medal with clasps and Turkish medal); was instructor in Fortifications at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1858–59; commanded the Royal Artillery on Mauritius in 1863–65, and on Saint Helena in 1869–71; was for five years Instructor to the Artillery School for Militia and Volunteer Officers; and subsequently held the position of Commandant of the South Australian Military Forces from 1877 to 1885, serving as a Member of the Royal Commission on Defences in 1881, and as Secretary of Defence for Victoria from 1885 to 1888. In March of the latter year, he was reappointed Commandant of the South Australian Military Forces. Major General Downes was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1885. Downes died in Brighton, Melbourne, Australia, on 15 October 1923; he was buried with military honours in the Church of England portion of the Brighton Cemetery. Downes had married Helen Maria Chamberlain at Catton, Norwich, on 9 June 1858, and she had died on 21 January 1903 aged 62. They had a daughter and four sons, including Rupert Downes, who became a major general and director-general of medical services of the Australian Military Forces. (en)
dbo:allegiance
  • United Kingdom
dbo:award
dbo:battle
dbo:militaryBranch
dbo:militaryCommand
  • South Australian Military Forces
dbo:restingPlace
dbo:serviceEndYear
  • 1885-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:serviceStartYear
  • 1848-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 41344854 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 4438 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1095935447 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:allegiance
  • United Kingdom (en)
dbp:awards
dbp:battles
dbp:birthDate
  • 1834-02-10 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
  • Dedham, Essex, England (en)
dbp:branch
dbp:caption
  • Downes in 1890 (en)
dbp:children
dbp:commands
dbp:deathDate
  • 1923-10-15 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
  • Brighton, Victoria, Australia (en)
dbp:name
  • Major Francis Downes (en)
dbp:placeofburial
dbp:rank
dbp:serviceyears
  • 1848 (xsd:integer)
  • 1888 (xsd:integer)
  • 1899 (xsd:integer)
dbp:spouse
  • Ann Davey (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dct:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Major General Major Francis Downes, CMG (10 February 1834 – 15 October 1923) was a British Army officer, who served as commandant of the colonial forces in South Australia. Downes was the son of William Downes, of Dedham, Essex, England, and was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered the Royal Artillery in 1852, was promoted lieutenant colonel in 1877, colonel in 1882, and major general in 1884, the year of his retirement. He served in the Crimean War in 1855 (medal with clasps and Turkish medal); was instructor in Fortifications at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1858–59; commanded the Royal Artillery on Mauritius in 1863–65, and on Saint Helena in 1869–71; was for five years Instructor to the Artillery School for Militia and Volunteer Officers; and subsequent (en)
rdfs:label
  • Major Downes (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Major Francis Downes (en)
is dbo:relation of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:relations of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License