David Standen

He joined the War Office Commissariat in Dec 1847

London Gazette, Issue 21406, 28 February 1853 Page 230 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21406/page/230/data.pdf War Office Commissariat Clerks David Standen

WAR OFFICE April 1855 A LIST OF THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY Page 482 DEPUTY ASSISTANT COMMISSARIES GENERAL David Standen Date of Rank 5 Jan 53

London Gazette, Issue 22907, 1 November 1864 Page 5118 War Office, Pall Mall, 1st November, 1864. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General , David Standen to be. Assistant Commissary-General, vice J. M. M. Sutherland, Deceased. Dated 10th September, 1864.

London Gazette, Issue 23643, 12 August 1870 Page 3772 War Office, Pall Mall, 12th August, 1870. CONTROL DEPARTMENT. The undermentioned Officers have been appointed to the SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT SUB DEPARTMENT, from the 12th February, 1870, except where otherwise stated, such antedate not to carry pay prior to 12th August, 1870 : — To be Commissaries. (Relative Military Rank — Major). David Standen, from Assistant Commissary-General. Date of relative rank 10th

Medals auctioned South Africa 1834-53 (Dy. Asst. Comy. Genl. D. Standen) minor contact marks, good very fine £400-450 Footnote David Standen was first commissioned in the Commissariat Department in December 1847, and was advanced to Deputy Assistant Commissary General in January 1853, at the time of his service in the Cape of Good Hope during the Third Kaffir War. Remaining similarly employed in the Cape for many years, he was advanced to Assistant Commissary General in September 1864 and to Commissary in February 1870, the latter rank being equivalent to that of Major. Having then transferred to the Army’s Control Department, Standen was placed on half-pay during the 1880s.

Death certificate: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-Y3QF-CFW?mode=g&i=841&... Image 842