Charles Ash Windham

Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Windham was commissioned as an ensign in the Coldstream Guards on 30 December 1826.[1] He led the charge on the Great Redan to the south of the Malakoff redoubt at Sevastopol on 8 September 1855 during the Battle of the Great Redan in the Crimean War. William Howard Russell, the correspondent of The Times, claimed that in doing so Windham had "saved the honour of the army."[1] He also fought in the Second Battle of Cawnpore during the Indian Rebellion.[1]

Windham became a Member of Parliament (MP) for East Norfolk and held the seat from 1857 to 1859.[2] Promoted to lieutenant-general on 5 February 1866, he became Commander of the British Troops in Canada in October 1867.[1] Windham died in Florida, was interred temporarily in Montreal and finally buried in Hanwell cemetery, Middlesex, England.[1][3]

• Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Windham, Charles Ash" . Dictionary of National Biography. 62. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Charles Ashe Windham: A Norfolk Soldier (1810-1870) by H.O. Mansfield. 1973
• The Crimean diary and letters of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ash Windham, K.C.B.: with observations upon his services during the Indian mutiny, and an introduction by Sir William Howard Russell ; the whole edited by Hugh Pease (1897)

• Works by or about Charles Ash Windham at Internet Archive
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by General Charles Windham