General sir redvers buller

Son of James Wentworth Buller, M.P., of Crediton, Devonshire, and the descendant of an old Cornish family, long established in Devonshire, tracing its ancestry in the female line to Edward I., he was born in at Downes, Crediton, Devon, and educated at Eton.

He was a major benefactor in Crediton and Exeter during the early years of the last century.

Redvers Buller is remembered in rather negative terms because of his failures in the Boer War of 1899-1902.

General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, VC, GCB, GCMG was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, VC, GCB, GCMG (7 December 1839 – 2 June 1908) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross.

General Redvers Buller was born into a prominent Devonshire family and decorated with the Victoria Cross for his heroic actions in the Zulu War.

Redvers Buller is best known for commanding British forces during the South African (Second Boer) War. After losing three successive battles.

He was General Officer Commanding at Aldershot, October to October and January to October

Commissioned into the 60th Rifles (King&#;s Royal Rifle Corps) in May he served in the Peking expedition of , in the Red River Rebellion (Canada) , and Ashanti (Ghana) , where he came to the notice of General Garnet Wolsley.

He then served in South Africa during the Kaffir War, and the Zulu War, , where he commanded a regiment of irregular horse. Buller lost approximately ninety men of his force in the retreat from Inhlobane where he was awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing three of his men from the Zulus.

He served as Chief of Staff in the