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Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F
Date transcribed | 2011-03-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Dyas | | First Name(s) | Joseph Henry | | Year of Birth | 1824 | | Year of Death | 1868 | | Entry | Born April 7, 1824 : son of Capt. Joseph Dyas of the 51st K.O.L.I. : educated at Delgany, Dungannon, Addiscombe : entered the Bengal Engineers : went to India, 1845 : just too late for Sobraon : with the Army to Lahore : at the taking of the fort of Kangra, 1846 : Assistant Superintendent of the W. Jamna Canal : prepared and worked on the Bari Doab Canal project from 1850 : Director of Canals at Madhupur, 1856 : in the mutiny was at Trimmu Ghat, July 16, 1857 : Capt., 1857 : in 1864, Lt- Colonel and Chief Engineer, N.W.P. : died March 4, 1868, ""a sacrifice to his devotion to his duty and his work "" in the Canal Department : he had a faculty for mechanical invention. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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