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The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume II: The Hauhau Wars, (1864–72)

Major-General Sir G. S. Whitmore

Major-General Sir G. S. Whitmore

Major-General Sir G. S. Whitmore

Before coming to New Zealand Major-General Sir George Stoddart Whitmore had seen considerable service in south Africa as a young officer in the Cape Mounted Rifles. He served in the Kaffir wars, 1847 and 1851–53, and in the fighting with the Boers, 1848. On his return to England he passed through the Staff College with the highest credit. In 1861 he arrived in New Zealand as military secretary to General Cameron, and, after the Waikato War, retired from the Army and settled in Hawke's Bay as a sheep-farmer. He was requested to take command of the colony's military forces in the field in 1868. After the successful expedition to the Urewera Country in 1869 he retired from active service through ill health. He afterwards was engaged in sheep-farming on the East Coast, and was for many years a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council.