Sir Walter Gilbert, 1st Baronet

General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, 1st Baronet, GCB (18 March 1785, Bodmin – 12 May 1853, Stevens' Hotel, Bond Street, London) was an English army officer in the British East India Company.

Participating in the defeat of Perron's brigades at Koil, Aligarh, the battles of Delhi, Laswari and the storming of Agra.

He was made a KCB in April 1846 and again commanded a division under Gough in the Second Anglo-Sikh War, at the 1849 battles of Chilianwala and Gujrat before leading his division (which included Robert Napier) across the Jhelum River to pursue the remnants of the Sikh army and receiving their surrender in Rawalpindi on 3 and 6 March.

He next pursued the Sikhs' Afghan allies from Attock right up to the Khyber Pass, and in reward was appointed GCB in June 1849 and a Baronet in 1850.

Sir Walter is buried on the west side of the southern section of the central north-south path in Kensal Green Cemetery in London.

The grave of Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Kensal Green Cemetery
Arms of Gilbert: Argent, on a chevron gules three roses of the field [ 1 ]
The memorial to Gilbert at Bodmin