Rodolphus de Salis

General Rodolph John Leslie Hibernicus De Salis (9 May 1811 - 13 March 1880), CB, OBE, Légion d'honneur, and Order of Medjidie was a soldier who fought at many major battles during the nineteenth century.

Early life and education edit

Second son of Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio, he was educated at Eton College, Heidelberg University and Oriel College, Oxford.^[1]

Career edit

Cornet, 17 December 1830; Lieutenant, 28 June 1833; Captain, 13 July 1838; Major, 19 February 1847; Brevet Lt. Colonel, 28 November 1854; Lt. Colonel, 2 October 1856; Colonel, 20 March 1858. He fought at Alma, Inkerman, Balaclava, Tchernaya, Kertch, Sebastopol, Central India (& Rajpootana), Kotah ki Serai, Sindwaho, Delhi, Koondrye, Chundaree, Gwalior, and Boordah.^[2]

De Salis' full heraldic achievement, lowest part of an 1889 window by A. L. Moore, put up in his honour at S.S. Peter & Paul, Harlington, Middlesex. (De Salis; Fane; Le Despencer; Beaufort; Neville; and Beauchamp).

Marriage edit

He married in Paris, 8 November 1875, Augusta Letitia Robinson,^{[citation needed]} of 10 Marble Arch, London, (1839–1929), (widow of General Adolfus Derville, (1801–1874), Indian Army.^{[citation needed]}

References and Notes edit

Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Roy Dutton, 2007.

^ Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251–253).
^ The Annual Army List, 1865, edited by Colonel H. G. Hart, published by John Murray, London.

[1] Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251–253).

[2] The Annual Army List, 1865, edited by Colonel H. G. Hart, published by John Murray, London.

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