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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. | 819 |  | Surname | Ricketts | | | Christian Names | Mordaunt | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1843-45 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1846-57 | | | Place of Death | Killed at Shahjahanpur | | | Date of Death | 1857 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Magistrate and Collector of Shahjahanpur | | | Mutiny Service | Magistrate of Shahjehanpore. The 28th Native Infantry stationed at Shahjehanpore rose on the morning of Sunday, May 31, when most of the Civil and Military European residents were in church. A party of Sepoys, armed with swords, entered while the service was going on and cut down Ricketts and others. The Assistant Magistrate, Jenkins, and several Officers and ladies who managed to escape from the church were immediately fired on from the neighbouring Sepoy lines, but the majority got away in buggies and on horseback, only to be eventually massacred in Oudh. Syud Amjad Ali, Tahsildar, who on hearing the firing had hastened to the spot, found Ricketts' body in the church. The sword cuts on head and neck were so terribly severe that death must have been immediate. The bodies were treated with all respect and carefully buried by the Syud. |
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