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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. | 907 |  | Surname | McDonnell | | | Christian Names | William Frazer | | | Decorations | VC | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1847-49 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1849-86 | | | Annuitant | 1886 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Judge of High Court, Calcutta | | | Mutiny Service | Magistrate of Sarun. Accompanied Dunbar's expedition for the relief of Arrah as a volunteer. The party fell into an ambush, and had to retreat with heavy loss. The survivors reached a stream, which had to be crossed in boats, but these were fastened to the bank, and they were subjected to a heavy fire from the rebels. McDonell, at the imminent risk of his life, exposed himself to free one of the boats full of men and, amidst a perfect storm of bullets, he managed to unfasten it, and they quickly drifted down the stream and out of range. For this gallant act he received the Victoria Cross. Later on, when Kooer Singh escaped from Oudh and returned to his own country, McDonell was attached to the force under General Lugard, which followed him up. |
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