Grand Old Man Of The Army
The phrase
Grand Old Man of the Army
refers to Gen. Sir
Anthony Blaxland Stransham
, GCB, of the
Royal Marines
, who served
Britain
in a series of colonial wars in the
19th century
. Twice knighted by
Queen Victoria
, he was the oldest living Grand Commander of the Bath when he died, and the senior officer in the Army. See:
Order of the Bath
. In
America
, Gen.
Winfield Scott
was known as the Grand Old Man of the Army.
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