George Skene Hallowes was born on 26 August 1830. He was married to Lucy Anne Hope in Edinburgh on 9 Aug 1870, while Major Hallowes was on furlough from India. They had nine children, 5 daughters and 4 sons, who all survived to adulthood. Major-General Hallowes died on 4 May 1911. The Hallowes Genealogy website gives his addresses as Arnold Street, Holmwood near Dorking, Surrey, and 27 Hogarth Road, Kensington where he died in 1911.
He served in the 25th King’s Own Borderers from February 1849 to August 1881, appointed to command the 2nd Battalion from July 1876 to 14 August 1881, during which time the Battalion had returned from Aden in March 1876, stationed at Shorncliffe, then Aldershot, Plymouth, Devonport, and in 1881 moved to Ireland.
The photo comes from Paul Frecker’s Library of Nineteenth Century Photography and shows Captain Hallowes in an undress blue frock-coat and forage cap with a red cap-band. The 1864 Dress Regulations authorised four regiments to have Scottish-style diced cap-bands, of which the 25th was one. This places the photo in the early 1860s, prior to the adoption of the diced band, while he held the rank of captain. The recently raised 2nd Battalion was in Britain, embarking for Ceylon on 28 July 1863, and served in India and Aden until 1876.
1849 Ensign 16 Feb
1851 Lieutenant 21 Oct
1858 Captain 10 Sep
1869 Major 21 Aug
1876 Lieutenant-Colonel 15 Jul
1881 Major General
