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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. | 939 |  | Surname | Block | | | Christian Names | Adam Henry George | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1849-50 | | | 2nd Term | Hist & Pol Econ, Sanskrit Prizes | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1851-57 | | | Place of Death | Killed near Sultanpur | | | Date of Death | 1857 [Jun 6] | | | Final Appointment 1 | Deputy Commissioner of Saltanpur | | | Mutiny Service | Deputy Commissioner of Sultanpore in Oudh, the headquarters of the 15th Irregular Cavalry, commanded by Sam Fisher, one of the finest Officers in the Service. On June 5 Block was warned of the approach of mutinous Sepoys from Jaunpore, who had declared their resolve to kill every European. Fisher and Block at once sent off the ladies and children under an escort to Allahabad, but refused to leave themselves. The next day they were both basely murdered by some policemen, the troopers standing by. |
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