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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 | Primrose | | First Name(s) | James Maurice | | Birth Year | 1819 | | Death Year | 1892 | | Entry | General : educated at Sandhurst : joined the Army, 1837 : with the 43rd regt. in the Kafir war, 1851-3 : in the mutiny, at Kirwi and other engagements, 1857-8 : held a command at Aldershot : in the Afghan war, 1879-80 : commanded the first Division of the Kandahar Field Force, 1879, and the whole force in succession to Sir D. M. Stewart (q.v.) in 1880 : besieged at Kandahar by Ayub Khan after Maiwand, 1880 : died Nov. 25, 1892: C.S.I. |
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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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