{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Lieutenant-General |name=Henry Sarel |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} |image=Henrysarel.png |caption= |birth_date=1 November 1823<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boase |first1=Frederic |title=Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Between the Years 1851-1900, with an Index of the Most Interesting Matter |year=1965 |publisher=Frank Cass |page=413 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1w4AQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> |death_date= 2 January 1887 (aged 63)<ref>{{cite book |title=Rugby School Register: From April, 1675, to April, 1842 |date=1901 |publisher=Rugby School |page=301 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwkCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA301 |language=en}}</ref> |birth_place= London, England<ref>{{cite book |title=Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge ... |date=1911 |publisher=Macmillan and Company, Limited |page=521 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jp8-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA521 |language=en}}</ref> |death_place= Rollesby Hall, Norfolk |burial_place= |burial_label= |nickname= |allegiance={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |branch=23px British Army |service_years=1847–1885 |rank=Lieutenant-General |unit= |commands= |battles=Indian Mutiny<br />Second Opium War |awards=Companion of the Order of the Bath |relations= |other_work= }} Lieutenant-General '''Henry Andrew Sarel''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} (1 November 1823 – 2 January 1887) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.
==Military career== Educated at Rugby School,<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/rugbyschoolregis03rugbuoft/rugbyschoolregis03rugbuoft_djvu.txt Rugby School Register, May 1874 - May 1904]</ref> Sarel became a cornet with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers in 1847<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20753|page=2559|date=13 July 1847}}</ref> and subsequently transferred to the 17th Lancers.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22117|page=1571|date=24 March 1858}}</ref> He fought with his Regiment during the Indian Mutiny in 1857<ref>Second medal displayed in portrait</ref> and then joined the China Expedition in 1861.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/pss/1798395 Papers read] Royal Geographical Society, 11 November 1861</ref> He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1883<ref>[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Guernsey.html World Statesmen]</ref> and lived at Rollesby Hall in Norfolk.<ref>[http://apling.freeservers.com/Villages/Rollesby.htm Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, 1883, p.476]</ref>
==Family== He married Phyllis Molyneux.<ref>[http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersS.html Unit Histories]</ref>
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