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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mcmurdo    
First Name(s)  William Mogunta Scott    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1819    
Death Year  1894    
Entry  Son of Lt-Colonel Archibald McMurdo : born May 30, 1819 : educated at Sandhurst : joined the 8th foot in 1837 : went out to Karachi, 1841 : head of the Q.M.G. department in Sind, 1842-7 : in Sir C. Napier's force in 1842 : at Miani, 1843 : and Hyderabad, 1843 : was A.D.C. to Napier when C. in C., 1849-50 : in the Afridi operations, and in the forcing of the Kohat Pass, 1850 : Director-General of the land transport corps in the Crimea : A.D.C. to Queen Victoria : Brevet-Colonel : C.B. : Colonel Commandant of the military train, 1857 : Inspr-General of Volunteers, 1860-5 : commanded a District in Bengal, 1870-3 : Maj-General, 1868 : General, 1878 : K.C.B., 1881 : died March 2, 1894     
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