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Date transcribed | 2011-05-01 | 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 | Lucas | | First Name(s) | Alfred William | | Titles | Sir | | Year of Birth | 1822 | | Year of Death | 1896 | | Entry | General : son of Charles Lucas : entered the Bombay Army, 1838 : served in the S. Mahratta campaign, 1844-5 : in the Persian war, 1856-7 : at Muhamra : in the mutiny, 1857-9 : in the Rajputana Field Force, at the taking of Kotah, in the pursuit of Tantia Topi : Brevet-Major : Head of the Commissariat Department in the Abyssinian expedition, 1867-8 : Brevet- Colonel : C.B. : Deputy Commissary General, Bombay, 1863-77 : General, 1889 : K.C.B. , 1893 : died Feb. 19, 1896. |
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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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