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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. | 651 |  | Surname | Wynyard | | | Christian Names | William | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1836 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1837-64 | | | Annuitant | 1864 | | | Place of Death | Cannes [France] | | | Date of Death | 1892 Feb 13 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Judge of Shahjahanpur | | | Mutiny Service | Arrived at Goruckpore as Judge in April 1857 and took charge of the district by order of the Commissioner. The troops stationed here were two Companies of the 17th Native Infantry and some 94 troopers of the 12th Irregular Cavalry. The district was much disturbed, but some order was maintained. On June 20 the women and children were sent away and reached Ghazipore in safety. On July 28 the Nepaul troops arrived, but were under orders to march on to Benares and could not leave a detachment. So when news came that the 12th Irregular Cavalry had mutinied at Segoulee and were marching on Goruckpore, the Station was abandoned and the Civil Officers accompanied the Goorkhas to Azimgarh on August 13, after disarming the Sepoys. Eighty-three of the Cavalry remained staunch and refused to await their mutinous comrades from Segoulee. After being attacked on the road by a large body of rebels and defeating them, the force reached Azimgarh on August 26th. Wynyard then took charge of Azimgarh, which was utterly disorganized, and remained there with two Regiments of Goorkhas. On September 19 they attacked and defeated a large body of rebels at Mundree, and in November Wynyard was with Col. Longden in the action at Atraulia. After this the district was comparatively quiet till the rebels were driven out of Oudh. Then a large body of Shahabad men swarmed in and drove the Europeans into their intrenchments, where they remained from March 27 till relieved by Lord Mark Kerr on April 6th. But the district was not pacified till April 16th, when Lugard's Column arrived. |
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