George Wetherall

General Sir George Augustus Wetherall, GCB, KH (1788 – 8 April 1868) was a senior British Army officer.

[1] He served as brigade-major at the Cape of Good Hope in 1807, took part in the conquest of Java as aide-de-camp to his father, from 1822 till 1825 was military secretary to the commander-in-chief of Madras, and in 1826 was appointed deputy judge-advocate-general in India.

[1] After the victory, he and his troops unearthed the Colonne de la liberté, a column erected in Saint-Charles by the Patriotes for the Assembly of the Six Counties, and brought it back as a war trophy to Montreal, along with a number of prisoners.

[1] In 1854 he was made Adjutant-General to the Forces, which post he held until 1860 when he took command of the Northern District of England.

In 1860 he was in overall charge of the Royal Volunteer Review in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh for Queen Victoria.