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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College

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Date transcribed2000-00-00
Transcribed byBenda Cook
CommentPublication Date: 1894
Author: F. C. Danvers, Sir M Monier -Williams, Sir S. C. Bayley, P. Wigram, the late Brand Sapte, and many contributors.
Publisher Constable & Co.: Westminster
British Library: OIR 354.54 Held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.
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No.  683    
View all other items of "Surname" with value "Hillersdon" in "Memorials of Old Haileybury College" Surname  Hillersdon    
Christian Names  Charles George    
Dates at Haileybury  1838-40    
4th Term  Persian Prize    
Presidency  Bengal    
Career in India  1840-57    
Place of Death  Killed at Cawnpore    
Date of Death  1857    
Final Appointment 1  Magistrate and Collector of Cawnpore    
Mutiny Service  Collector of Cawnpore. This is not the place to record the events of the terribly anxious times passed by the Christians of Cawnpore previous to entering the so-called intrenchments, nowhere higher than three feet, which they did as a forlorn hope; nor the terrible suffering they there underwent; nor the cruel treachery of which the survivors were victims, trusting to the promised protection and safeguard of the accursed Nana. Suffice it to say that the brave and patient Hillersdon soon fell, killed by a round shot in the presence of his wife, she herself soon following him.    
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