Alexander Robert Badcock General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock , KCB , CSI ( 1844 – 1907 ) was a general in the British Indian Army . Life . He was educated at Harrow School , the son of Henry Badcock ( 1801 – 1888 ) , a Taunton banker . His grandfather , Isaac Badcock and his great - uncle , John Badcock had founded " Badcock ' s Bank " at Taunton in 1800 , which later became known as " Stuckey ' s Bank " and then the Westminster Bank . He obtained his first commission as ensign on 1 Oct . 1861 , was promoted lieutenant on 1 Oct . 1862 and captain on 1 Oct . 1873 , brevet - colonel on 2 March 1885 , major - general on 1 April 1897 , lieutenant - general on 3 April 1900 . After a brief period of regimental duty with the 38th foot and then with the 29th Bengal native infantry , he entered in 1864 the commissariat department , in which he remained till 1895 , achieving a remarkable success and rising to the highest post of commissary general - in - chief , December 1890 . In his three earliest campaigns , Bhutan War ( 1864 - 5 ) , the Black Mountain Expedition ( 1868 ) , and Perak ( 1875 - 6 ) he attracted notice for his foresight and power of organisation , winning the thanks of government . His next service was rendered as principal commissariat officer under Frederick Roberts , 1st Earl Roberts in the Kuram field force ( 1878 - 9 ) , taking part in the forcing of the Peiwar Kotal and other actions . Returning from furlough when operations were resumed , he joined the Kabul field force , and owing to his admirable preparations Lord Roberts found in Sherpur when it was invested ' supplies for men stored for nearly four months and for animals for six weeks . ' Badcock also assisted in recovering the guns abandoned near Bhagwana , and finally when the Kabul - Kandahar field force , consisting of 9986 men and eighteen guns with 8000 followers and 2300 horses and mules , started on 9 Aug . 1880 he relieved Roberts ' s ' greatest anxiety , ' and the force reached Kandahar , 313 miles from Kabul , on 31 Aug . , with a safe margin of supplies . For these services he received the medal and three clasps , the bronze star , brevets of major and lieutenant - colonel , and the C . B . Roberts reported to government that he knew of ' no officer so well qualified as Major Badcock to be placed at the head of the commissariat in the field . ' In 1885 , he collected transport for the Sudan , and in 1895 received the C . S . I , and the thanks of government for his services in connection with the Chitral relief force . He was appointed quartermaster - general in India on 7 Nov . 1895 . Besides these appointments he acted as secretary in the military department 1890 - 1 and was president of a committee to consider the grant of compensation for dearness of provisions , October 1894 . On his retirement at the expiration of his term of office as quartermaster - general in 1900 , he took an active part in the organisation of the imperial yeomanry , and was appointed member of the council of India , receiving on 26 June 1902 the K . C . B . He died in London on 23 March 1907 , while still holding that office , and was buried at Taunton . There is no known familial relationship between General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock and another nineteenth century British Army general bearing the same surname , General Sir Lovell Benjamin Badcock . Family . He married in 1865 , Theophila Lowther , daughter of John Shore Dumergue , I . C . S . , judge of Aligarh , by whom he had four sons and a daughter . All his sons entered the army . Sir Alexander appears in the picture of officers who took part in the Kabul - Kandahar march published by Major Whitelock of Birmingham in 1911 .