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 Register of Students Admitted 1871-1906 - REIC Coopers Hill

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Date transcribed2012-05-21
Transcribed byRobert Charnock
CommentVol 1 F.W. Abbatt to RHE Hutton-Squire.
At a meeting of the Coopers Hill Society in 1959 the lack of any biographical record of students admitted to the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, was discussed. This register is an attempt to complete a record. It may be regarded as an appendix to: A Short History of the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, by J.G.P. Cameron, C.I.E., issued by the Coopers Hill Society for private circulation in 1960.

The names of the students admitted have been taken from the calendars published annually by authority and preserved in the library of the India Office, Whitehall. The biographical details have been compiled mainly from information in the magazines mentioned on page 28 of Camerons History.

View all other items of "Surname" with value "BUTLER" in "Register of Students Admitted 1871-1906 - REIC Coopers Hill" Surname  BUTLER    
Given names  Hon Robert Thomas Rowley Probyn    
Awards  DSO (1918), M.C. Major Royal Engineers    
Birth  8 October 1882    
Marriage  15 July 1913    
Death  14 December 1938, at 'Nanoose', Wool, Dorset     
Wifes name  Grace Theodosia Farquhar    
Wifes fathers name  Lieut. Col George Kinloch, Somerset Light Infantry    
Fathers name  3rd son of 25th Baron Dunboyne    
Primary Education  Winchester    
Term at CH  1901-04    
Sports career  Rowed in the 1902 & 1903 crews. Rugby XV 1902-03 & 1903-04    
Academic achievements  Awarded Vice-President's Scholarship 1904. Passed for the Indian Public Service    
Career  Posted to State Railways. Served in Punjab and N.W. Frontier Province 1904-07. Resigned 27 March 1909 and went to Canada, engineering and farming 1908-14    
Military & War Service  WW1 Enlisted 29th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914. Commissioned in Royal Engineers 1915. at Gallipolli with Anzacs. Transferred to Tank Corps 1916. served in Egypt and France (despatches MC & DSO). October 1918 transferred to Christchurch, Hants to R.E. and Tank Bridging Co. Transferred to tank workshops, Bovington Camp 1919-26. Transferred to Royal Army Service Corps M.T. Branch 1926. Later to Indian Army Service Corps 1926-35    
Ref  Coopers Hill Mag. IV 2 & 10, IV 5 & V 4, XIII 5, Obit The Times 22 Dec 1938    
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