Major-General Hamilton Bower, who has been given the £.0.3. for his successful conduct of the Aber expedition, waa fifty-four on September 1. Probably no English officer is better known in China than General Bower, and his journey actors Tibet ranks among the greatest journeys ever made in For this he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society. He was attached to the Chinese Army during the war with Japan, and subsequently drafted a scheme for the reorganization of the Chinese Army. In 1807 he organized the Chinese Regiment of Infantry at i i, and commanded that corps at the relief of Peking in 1900. Later he was in command of the British Legation Guard at Peking for some years.
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