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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. | 754 |  | Surname | Saunders | | | Christian Names | Charles Burslem | | | Decorations | CB | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1841-42 | | | 2nd Term | Mathematics, Hist & Pol Econ Prizes | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1843-78 | | | Annuitant | 1878 | | | Date of Death | 1888 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Financial and Judicial Commissioner at Hyderabad 1861; Judicial Commissioner of Mysore 1863; | | | Final Appointment 2 | Resident at Hyderabad 1869 | | | Mutiny Service | Magistrate of Moradabad, where J. C. Wilson was Judge and J. S. Campbell joint Magistrate. The troops there were the 29th Native Infantry, who for a time behaved fairly well, marching out to clear the road to Meerut and capturing a party of mutineers on May 18. On the 19th five emissaries from the rebels attempted to get into the lines, but one was shot by the sentry and the others made prisoners and sent to jail. Unfortunately the dead man had a relation in the Regiment, and he and his friends went down, broke open the jail and released all the prisoners. The civilians had hard and exciting work in pursuing and recapturing some 150 of these men with the help of a few of the 29th. Wilson at one time, having outridden the Sepoys, found himself alone amongst twelve men, He shot three, and then the neighbouring villagers came to his help and took the others. That evening the Regiment was quieted and for a time remained steady. Saunders returned from his expedition towards Meerut, and he, Wilson, and Campbell were with the force that on May 22 met and disarmed two Companies of mutinous Sappers and Miners from Roorkee. But on June 3 the approach of the mutineers from Bareilly rendered further stay impossible. The 29th could no longer be trusted, Wilson and Saunders, when packing the treasure in tumbrils to be sent to the lines, were aimed, though not shot, at by the guard, and the whole party were obliged to leave quietly that night with nothing but their clothes on their backs. Next day they reached Garmukhtesar Ghat, where they found Fleetwood Williams and a party, who escorted them to Meerut. Saunders then joined Greathed before Dehli, and was employed in the Punjab. After the capture of Dehli he took charge as Commissioner, and had most arduous work in restoring order in the Division. |
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