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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. | 961 |  | Surname | Saunders | | | Christian Names | Reginald Floyd | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1849-51 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1851-77 | | | Annuitant | 1877 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Judge of Farrukhabad | | | Mutiny Service | Deputy Commissioner of Kangra and served under Generals Reynell Taylor and Edward Lake. Knowing the popular local saying, ""He who holds the Fort hold the Hills,"" they secured the fort at night and next morning disarmed the 4th Native Infantry, who were not to be trusted and whose Subhadar Major was connected with the Royal House of Dehii. The Regiment was overawed for the time, but subsequently mutinied and fled. When the Hill tribes rose under Partab Singh, they were put down by force and the leaders captured and punished. Saunders had most anxious and trying work in the protection of the sanatorium at Dhurmsala, which was full of the wives and children of Officers. He also raised levies from the Kangra Rajputs and Dogras, who formed the nucleus of the Punjab Regiments which were sent to Dehli. Saunders had on one occasion to perform the arduous task of escorting 96 prisoners for more than 100 miles through the Hills in the midst of the rains. These men were mutineers of the 46th Native Infantry and 9th Cavalry who had fled from Sealkote to the Hills and were captured beyond Spiti and Lahaul. This work was accomplished with the assistance of a few villagers only. |
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