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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C
| Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Chamberlain | | | First Name(s) | Sir Neville Bowles | | | Year of Birth | 1820 | | | Year of Death | 1902 | | | Entry | Field Marshal : second son of Sir Henry Orlando Chamberlain, first Baronet : born 1820 : educated for a short time at Woolwich : at 17 entered the Bengal Army: in the first Afghan war was with Nott's force : at the occupation of Kandahar, at Ghazni, Kabul and Istalif : constantly wounded : was in the Governor-General's bodyguard : in the Gwalior campaign, D.A.Q.M.G. : at Maharajpur : in the second Sikh war, at Chilianwala and Gujarat : complimented by the C. in C. for personal gallantry : Commandant of Panjab Military Police : Military Secretary to the Panjab Government : Commandant of the Panjab Frontier Force : commanded several expeditions against the frontier tribes : in the mutiny of 1857 was in charge of the movable column of the Panjab until he became Adjutant- General of the Army at Delhi, and Brig- General : severely wounded there and disabled : C.B. and A.D.C. to Queen Victoria : commanded operations against the Waziris : K.C.B. : commanded in the Umbeyla campaign in 1863, until severely wounded when personally leading an assault of a difficult position : Maj-General : G. C.S.I.,. 1873 : G.C.B., 1875 : commanded the Madras Army, 1876-81: in 1878 selected, by Lord Lytton, to lead a special mission to the Amir Shir Ali : the stopping of the mission at Ali Masjid was the immediate ground of the second Afghan war : he was personally in harmony with Lord Lawrence's frontier policy : Military Member of Supreme Council, Nov. 1878- Jan. 1879 : retired, 1881 : severely criticised the policy of part of the Boer war, 1899-1902 : Field Marshal in 1900 : died Feb. 17, 1902. |
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