Rivers Berney Worgan

Brigadier General Rivers Berney Worgan CSI CVO DSO (4 March 1881 – 6 February 1934) was a senior British Indian Army officer during the First World War and Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India.

Born in Arrah on 4 March 1881, Worgan was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Under orders from Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael, he raised and commanded the Bodyguard of the 1st Governor of Bengal, between 1912 and 1913.

He served during the First World War, commanding the 9th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment (1916–17), and the 173rd Brigade, 58th (2/1st London) Division, at the Second Battle of the Somme (1918).

He was Commander of the Southern Brigade Area, between 1926 and 1930, retired from the British Indian Army in 1930, and was appointed as a Member of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms in 1932.