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	[[General (United Kingdom)\|General]] '''Sir Allen Bayard Johnson''' {{postnominals\|country=GBR\|KCB}} (2 May 1829 – 7 February 1907) was a senior [[British Indian Army]] officer who went on to be [[Military Secretary to the India Office]].		[[General (United Kingdom)\|General]] '''Sir Allen Bayard Johnson''' {{postnominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|KCB}} (2 May 1829 – 7 February 1907) was a senior [[British Indian Army]] officer who went on to be [[Military Secretary to the India Office]].

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[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Allen Bayard Johnson''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCB}} (2 May 1829 – 7 February 1907) was a senior [[British Indian Army]] officer who went on to be [[Military Secretary to the India Office]].

==Military career==
Johnson was [[Commissioned officer|commissioned]] into the [[Bengal Native Infantry|5th Bengal Native Infantry]] in 1846.<ref name=raj>{{Cite web |url=http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/india_during_the_raj_parts_1_and_2/Biographical-Notes-on-Diarists-Part-2.aspx |title=India during the Raj |access-date=2010-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203152155/http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/india_during_the_raj_parts_1_and_2/Biographical-Notes-on-Diarists-Part-2.aspx |archive-date=2008-12-03 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref>

He served in the [[Second Anglo-Burmese War]] in 1853 and took part in the fighting at Donabew and the capture of [[Bago, Burma|Pegu]]<ref name=raj/> and went on to serve with the Jaunpur Field Force during the repression of the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Mutiny]] being present at the [[Capture of Lucknow]] in 1857.<ref name=raj/>

He was appointed [[Military Secretary to the India Office]] in 1877.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YSK8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA265 The military in British India: the development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947 By T. A. Heathcote, Page265] Manchester University Press, 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-7190-3570-8}}</ref>

He was appointed [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] in 1889<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25939|page=2873|date=25 May 1889}}</ref> and promoted to [[General (United Kingdom)|General]] in 1892.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26281|page=2362|date=22 April 1892}}</ref>

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