1. General Sir Garrett O'Moore Creagh, known as Sir O'Moore Creagh, was a senior British Army officer and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
O'Moore Creagh had three children, one of whom was Major General Sir Michael Creagh.
In 1866, after training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, O'Moore Creagh was commissioned into the 95th Regiment of Foot and in 1869 was posted to India, being transferred to the British Indian Army the next year.
O'Moore Creagh was 31 years old, and a captain in the Bombay Staff Corps during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, when the following deed on 22 April 1879 at Kam Dakka, on the Kabul River, Afghanistan, took place for which he was awarded the VC:.
O'Moore Creagh took up a position in a cemetery not far off, which he made as defensible as circumstances would admit of, and this position he held against all the efforts of the enemy, repeatedly repulsing them with the bayonet until three o'clock in the afternoon, when he was relieved by a detachment sent for the purpose from Dakka.
The Commander-in-Chief in India has expressed his opinion that but for the coolness, determination, and gallantry of the highest order, and the admirable conduct which Captain O'Moore Creagh displayed on this occasion the detachment under his command would, in all probability, have been cut off and destroyed.
O'Moore Creagh assumed command of the 29th Bombay Infantry in 1890, and was promoted to Assistant Quarter-master General in 1896.
O'Moore Creagh commanded the Indian contingent during the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, and was in July 1901 appointed General Officer Commanding the British Force in China after the departure of General Alfred Gaselee.
O'Moore Creagh stayed in China for several years, and a report on the field operations of the force during his first year in overall command was sent in a despatch published in the London Gazette of 21 November 1902.
O'Moore Creagh was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1904 and promoted to general on 11 December 1907.
O'Moore Creagh succeeded Lord Kitchener as Commander-in-Chief, India, in 1909, retiring in 1914.
O'Moore Creagh died at 65 Albert Hall Mansions, London SW9, on 9 August 1923.
O'Moore Creagh further followed Kitchener in becoming the District Grand Master of Freemasons in the Punjab.