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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  Palmer    
First Name(s)  Arthur Power    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1840    
Death Year  1904    
Entry  Commander-in-Chief in India : son of Capt. Nicholas Power Palmer, who was killed during the retreat from Kabul, 1842 : born June 25, 1840 : educated at Cheltenham : entered the Indian Army in 1857, and in the mutiny was in Hodson's Horse, and in the Oudh campaign and at Nawabganj : joined the Bengal Staff Corps, 1861 : was in the N.W. frontier campaign of 1863-4 against the Mohmands: in Abyssinia in 1868 : A.D.C. to General Stafford in the Dana expedition, 1874-5 : served with the Dutch in their war in Achin, 1876-7 : in the Afghan war of 1878-9 : was A.A. and Q.M.G. of the Kuram Field Force, at Peiwar Kotal and in the Khost Valley : in the Soudan expedition of 1885, commanded the 9th Bengal Cavalry at Suakin : C.B. : Maj- General, 1893 : commanded in the N. Chin Hills in Burma, 1892-3 : K.C.B., 1893 : in the Tirah expedition, 1897-8, commanded the communications and the Second Division : was at Chagra Kotal : commanded the Panjab Army : General, 1899 : C. in C. in India, March 19, 1900, till the autumn of 1902, when he left India : was G.C.I.E., 1901 : G.C.B., 1903. As C. in C. he introduced many practical improvements, suggested by the experience of recent campaigns. He died Feb. 28, 1904.     
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