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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Benda Cook | | Comment | Publication 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. | 990 |  | Surname | Mangles | | | Christian Names | Ross Lowis | | | Decorations | VC | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1851-52 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1853-83 | | | Annuitant | 1883 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Commissioner in C[entral] P[rovinces]; Member of Board of Revenue, Calcutta | | | Mutiny Service | Assistant Magistrate in the Patna district, part of which was much disturbed. The mutiny of the Brigade at Dinapore and of the Irregular Cavalry at Segoulee had a very bad effect on Patna. Many of the Sepoys of these regiments came from the districts of Patna, Gaya, Shahabad, Tirhoot and Chupra. As soon as they mutinied their friends, many of them pensioned Sepoys, joined them, as did the released prisoners and several of the leading landholders, notably Kooer Singh. With the exception of a part of Patna, all the above-named districts were wholly lost for a time. Mangles accompanied Rattray's Sikhs in the quelling of a rising in the city of Patna, and was a volunteer with the unfortunate expedition, made by detachments of H.M. 10th and 37th Foot and a few Sikhs, which marched to the relief of the Arrah garrison. This force fell into an ambush and suffered very severely, being compelled to retreat. Out of the force of 15 officers and 415 men only 3 officers and 50 men escaped unwounded. Mangies, at great personal risk, carried and supported a wounded soldier of the 37th for five miles, who, but for his care, must have been left to die. For this gallant service Mangles received the Victoria Cross, a distinction nobly earned. He subsequently was most active in procuring supplies and carriage for the Goorkhas under Jung Bahadur. Early in 1858 he held the station of Sehwan in the Chupra district, till the rebels under Kooer Singh marched into the place, and Mangles escaped as by a miracle. |
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