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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. | 573 |  | Surname | Yule | | | Title | Sir | | | Christian Names | George Udny | | | Decorations | KCSI, CB | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1829-31 | | | 1st Term | Bengali Prize | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1832-68 | | | Annuitant | 1868 | | | Date of Death | 1866 Jan 13 | | | Other notes | [date of death clearly wrong] | | | Final Appointment 1 | Commissioner of Bhagalpur 1857; Chief Commissioner of Oudh 1862; | | | Final Appointment 2 | Resident at Haidarabad & Member of Governor-General's Council | | | Mutiny Service | Commissioner of Bhagulpore. A man respected alike by Europeans and Natives. By extraordinary energy and resolution he managed to maintain order without European troops in his Division till the third week in July. But the mutiny of the 12th Irregular Cavalry and the native regiments at Dinapore and the sedition of Kooer Singh compelled him to take action, and he did not hesitate to detain 90 men of H.M's. 5th Fusiliers to garrison Monghyr, thus securing, with Bhagulpore, two salient points, and assuring the navigation of the Ganges, a matter of extreme importance. This also rendered difficult all communication between the disaffected of East and West Behar. Subsequently Yule saw much field service, which cannot here be noticed at length. He was most active in the pursuit and punishment of large bodies of mutineers, driving many of them into Nepaul, not hesitating to follow up over the border the Dacca mutineers. By his promptness and rapidity of movement he saved Parnea and Kishenganj. His vigorous energy, nobly supported by the Civilians and Planters, with but very few regular troops, completely paralysed the movements of the mutineers from Chittagong and Dacca. Wherever there was work and danger in the Division, and even beyond its limits, there was Yule |
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