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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R
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 | Martin | | First Name(s) | Cunliffe | | Birth Year | 1834 | | Entry | Colonel : son of Sir James Ranald Martin, C.B. (q.v.) : educated at Cheltenham : entered the Indian Army, 1852 : served in the suppression of the Sonthal rebellion, 1855 : in the Indian mutiny, 1857-8 : severely wounded in Abyssinia as A.D.C. to Sir Donald Stewart {q.v.), 1868 : in Afghan war, 1880, commanded the Central India Horse : in the march from Kabul to Kandahar and battle of Kandahar : C.B., 1881 : retired. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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