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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 | Rattray | | First Name(s) | Thomas | | Birth Year | 1820 | | Death Year | 1880 | | Entry | Colonel : entered the Army in 1839 : served under General Pollock in the Khyber in 1842, and was severely wounded: under Sir C. Napier in Sind against the hill tribes : in 1856 he raised and organized a body of Sikhs, included in the Army as the 45th Bengal N.I., and known as Rattray's Sikhs : commanded them through the mutiny : Brevet-Major : Assistant-Adjutant General, 1878 : died Oct. 21, 1880: C.B. : 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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