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| Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Macgregor | | | First Name(s) | Charles Metcalfe | | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Sir | | | Birth Year | 1840 | | | Death Year | 1887 | | | Entry | Born Aug. 12, 1840 : son of Major Robert Guthrie Macgregor : educated at Marlborough : entered the Indian Army, 1856 : in the mutiny, at Firozpur : at the siege of Delhi, afterwards in several hand-to-hand combats : at the siege and capture of Lucknow : in Oudh, constantly engaged, 1858-9, under Hope Grant, Horsford, Holdich : in Fane's horse in China : Brig-Major in the Bhutan campaign, 1864 : severely wounded : D.A.Q.- M.G : in Abyssinian expedition : compiled the Gazetteer of Central Asia, 1868-73 : Director-General of Transport in the Bihar famine, 1874, for which he received the C.S.L : on expeditions on the Afghan and Beluchistan frontiers in 1875 : wrote accounts thereof : prevented from entering Herat : in the Afghan war, 1878-9, on the Khyber line : C.I.E. and C.B. : Chief of the Staff to Sir F. Roberts and other Generals : at Charasia, Kabul, Sherpur : commanded a Brigade in the Kabul- Kandahar march, and at the battle of Kandahar : commanded the Marri expedition : K.C.B., 1881 : Q.M.G. in India : given the command of the Panjab Frontier Force, 1885 Maj-General : died at Cairo, Feb. 5, 1887 compiled also the History of the second Afghan war, and wrote The Defence of India : Our Native Cavalry : and Mountain Warfare : a great soldier, full of knowledge, keenness, courage, and determination. |
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