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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. | 634 |  | Surname | Thornhill | | | Christian Names | Robert Bensley | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1835-36 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1836-57 | | | Place of Death | Killed at Cawnpore | | | Date of Death | 1857 [Jun] | | | Final Appointment 1 | Judge of Banda | | | Mutiny Service | Judge of Farruckabad, a station eighty miles up the Ganges from Cawnpore. It was garrisoned by the 10th Native Infantry, which did not commit any overt act of mutiny till June 3, when some of the Oudh Irregulars entered the station and the 10th fraternized with them. A few days later the 41st Native Infantry, which had mutinied and committed many murders at Seetapore, arrived and the city rose, thus rendering the place untenable. Some of the residents had previously gone down the river in boats, the rest took the fort, which they gallantly defended to the last. Thornhill was one of the fugitives in the boats, many of whom were killed on the voyage. The rest only reached Bithoor to swell the terrible slaughter carried out there and at Cawnpore by the orders of the Nana. |
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