Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody CB (1821 – 27 February 1869) was the Commander of the Royal Engineers in China throughout the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion.

Hampden Clement Blamire Moody was born on 10 January 1821,[1] at Bedford Square, London, into a traditional merchant family with a history of military service.

[17] He served in Canada from 1840 to 1848, for which he was based at Fort Garry (which later became Winnipeg) which was a trade-base of the Hudson's Bay Company,[1] of which he was a member,[18][19] and for which, between 1844 and 1846, he performed confidential service behind the United States border.

[27] Moody fought in the Kaffir War of 1851 to 1853,[18] for which he received a medal and a notice for his gallant conduct on 12 and 13 June 1852, on which he had led a significantly outnumbered group of Royal Engineers in Koonap Pass[17] during a shootout against rebel Khoekhoe between wagons and dwellings.

[17][18] The Royal Engineers were a land-marine force who performed 'reconnaissance work, led storming parties, demolished obstacles in assaults, carried out rear-guard actions in retreats and other hazardous tasks'.