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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. | 833 |  | Surname | Thornhill | | | Christian Names | Henry Bensley | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1844-45 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1846-57 | | | Place of Death | [Killed between Farruckabad & Cawnpore] | | | Date of Death | 1857 Jun | | | Final Appointment 1 | Deputy Commissioner in Oudh | | | Mutiny Service | Assistant Commissioner of Seetapore in Oudh. This station.was garrisoned by the 41st Native Infantry, a Regiment which gained an unenviable notoriety in the Mutiny. The residents held out as long as it was possible, but had to leave after terrible anxieties. They were hotly pursued, and men, women, and children ruthlessly shot down by the mutineers. Thornhill and his wife perished amongst them. |
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