Julius Raines

General Sir Julius Augustus Robert Raines GCB (9 March 1825 – 11 April 1909) was a British Army officer who commanded the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot and was later honorary colonel of the Buffs.He was brought up in Sevenoaks in the home of his mother Julia Jardine and attended the Ecole Militare in Brunswick, followed by the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.For his services with the Ottoman army in Silistra, prior to the invasion of the Crimea, he later received the first-class gold medal of the Liakat.He received the medal with three clasps, and was mentioned in dispatches 'as having served with zeal and distinction from the opening of the campaign.'Raines was promoted to major-general on 6 March 1868, to lieutenant-general on 1 October 1877,[4] and general (retired) on 1 July 1881, and was nominated colonel-in-chief of the Buffs in 1882.
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