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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surnames  Garnett    
First Name(s)  Arthur William    
Year of Birth  1829    
Year of Death  1861    
Entry  Son of William Garnett : born June 1, 1829 : educated at Addiscombe : went to India in the Bengal Engineers, 1848 : in the siege of Multan in 1848 : held the Chenab fords at Gujarat, 1849 : was in the pursuit of the Sikhs : served in Kohat in 1850 : reconstructed the fort there, and made "" Fort Garnett "" and other defensive positions and roads on the Afghan frontier : engaged in frontier expeditions, and kept the frontier quiet in the mutiny : in the P.W.D. Secretariat : died in 1861 in Calcutta : Colonel.     
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