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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  Mountain    
First Name(s)  Armine Simcoe Henry    
Birth Year  1797    
Death Year  1854    
Entry  Born Feb. 4, 1797 : son of the Right Rev. Jacob Mountain, Bishop of Quebec: joined the 96th regt. in 1815 : served in Nova Scotia : went to India in 1829 in the 26th Cameronians : to Madras : Military Secretary to Sir Colin Halkett, C. in C. at Bombay, 1832-4 : A.D.C. to Lord W. Bentinck, when Governor-General : D.A.G. to the Indian forces in the China war, 1840-2 : in all the chief engagements : wounded at Chefoo : C.B. : A.D.C. to Queen Victoria : Military Secretary to Lord Dalhousie, when Governor-General, Jan. to Oct. 1848 : Brig-General in the Panjab campaign : commanded a Brigade at Chilianwala and Gujarat, and the Bengal Division in the pursuit of the Sikhs : Adjutant-General, 1849, under Sir C. Napier and Sir W. Gomm : died at Fatehghar, Feb. 8, 1854 : there is a tablet to his memory in the church at Simla.    
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