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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. | 649 |  | Surname | Cocks | | | Christian Names | Arthur Herbert | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1836-37 | | | 3rd Term | Persian Prize | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1837-63 | | | Annuitant | 1863 | | | Date of Death | 1882 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Judge of Mainpuri | | | Mutiny Service | Judge of Mynpoorie. On hearing of the mutiny of the 9th Native Infantry at Allygarh, a detachment of which Regiment was stationed at Mynpoorie, the non-combatants were at once sent off to Agra. The Sepoys very shortly broke out and attempted to get possession of the treasure, but were prevented by the gallantry of the Police Guard. Seeing the game was up, Cocks left the station for Agra with the rest of the Officials, except the two Powers and three Canal subordinates. Cocks was one of a small body of mounted Volunteers raised in the fort at Agra, which did excellent service with the gallant W. C. Watson, Magistrate of Allygarh. Eleven of these brave spirits went with Watson to a factory near Allygarh, where they took up their residence towards the end of June. This small body would appear never to have slept. On hearing of the approach of a large body of rebels they coolly moved out to attack them, though the Advance Guard numbered at least 500. They charged, and cut down fourteen, when the rest fled panic-stricken. This victory had a good effect temporarily, but the little band had eventually to retire to Agra, not without the loss of two of their number. Cocks, who was employed in the Punjab in 1848-49, was severely wounded in the battle of Goojerat in a hand-to-hand encounter with a Sikh trooper. |
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