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Memorials of Old Haileybury College
Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | Transcribed by | Benda Cook | Comment | Publication Date: 1894
Author: F. C. Danvers, Sir M Monier -Williams, Sir S. C. Bayley, P. Wigram, the late Brand Sapte, and many contributors.
Publisher Constable & Co.: Westminster
British Library: OIR 354.54 Held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.
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| No. | 940 | | Surname | Gonne | | Christian Names | Henry | | Dates at Haileybury | 1849-51 | | Presidency | Bengal | | Career in India | 1851-57 | | Place of Death | Killed in Oudh [near Mathiara] | | Date of Death | 1857 | | Final Appointment 1 | Deputy Commissioner in Oudh | | Mutiny Service | Deputy Commissioner at Mullapore in Oudh. This district soon caught the contagion of rebellion and anarchy, and Gonne with the rest of the officials were in a few days, after hoping against hope, compelled to leave. They attempted to make their way down the Sarju by boat but, finding all the regular landing-places occupied by the rebels, they left their boat and made the best of their way to the Fort of Mathiara, belonging to the Raja of Dharawa, Thence the party attempted to reach Lucknow, but failed. They were not allowed to remain at Mathiara, so made for the Nepaul Terai, but were attacked on the way and murdered, after undergoing terrible privations, and suffering. |
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