Lieutenant-General William Staveley was a British Army officer who fought in the Peninsular War and later became Commander and Lieutenant Governor of Hong Kong.
Staveley Street near Queen's Road Central
The Madras Army was the army of the Presidency of Madras, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.
Left to right, the Madras Horse Artillery, the Madras Light Cavalry, the Madras Rifle Corps, the Madras Pioneers, the Madras Native Infantry, and the Madras Foot Artillery, c. 1830
A painting showing a sowar (cavalry equivalent of sepoy), 6th Madras Light Cavalry c. 1845.
The 1st Madras Pioneers, c. 1890
The Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners, 1896