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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. | 985 |  | Surname | Thornhill | | | Christian Names | John Bensley | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1850-52 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1853-57 | | | Place of Death | Died of wounds at Lucknow | | | Date of Death | 1857 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Assistant Commissioner in Oudh | | | Mutiny Service | Deputy Commissioner in Oudh. Was one of the Lucknow garrison, having escaped from his own district. On the approach of Havelock's relieving force Thornhill volunteered to go out and guide the troops through the city. In the performance of this most important service he was mortally wounded and died after he had been carried into the Residency. |
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