Sahib (68 page)

87
Rait,
Gough,
II, p. 169.

88
A. E. Clark Kennedy,
A Victorian Soldier: His Life and Times
(Cambridge: 1950), p. 64. The inscription above their grave in Multan Fort appears in G. W. De Rhé-Philipe and Miles Irving,
Soldiers of the Raj
(London: 1989), p. 130.

89
Rait,
Gough,
II, p. 255.

90
Casualties like this would have given the 24th the melancholy distinction of being amongst the hardest hit battalions on the First Day of the Somme in 1916.

91
Rait,
Gough,
II, p. 301.

92
Ursula Low (ed.),
Fifty Years with John Company: From the Letters of General Sir John Low
(London: 1936), p. 347.

93
Quoted in Low,
Fifty Years,
p. 129.

94
Colonel G. B. Malleson (ed.),
Kaye’s and Malleson’s History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58
(London: 1888), I, p. 96.

95
Anon,
Observations on India
(London: 1853), p. 149.

96
Lunt (ed.),
Sepoy to Subedar,
pp. 165-6.

97
Lunt (ed.),
Sepoy to Subedar,
p. 161.

98
Popularised in the USA as the ‘Minnie rifle’, the weapon was a muzzle-loading percussion rifle firing a bullet patented by Claude-Etienne Minié and Gustave Delvigne. It was adopted in Britain for the .703 inch 1851 Pattern rifle-musket, itself superseded by the .577 1853 Pattern, the first rifle to bear the name ‘Enfield’. See Major E. G. B. Reynolds,
The Lee-Enfield Rifle
(London: 1960), p. 17.

99
Saul David,
The Indian Mutiny
(London: 2002), p. 98. This admirable book stands head and shoulders above other popular works on the subject.

100
The best account of the massacre is Andrew Ward’s
Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857
(London: 1996).

101
Quoted in James Hewett (ed.),
Eyewitnesses to the Indian Mutiny
(Reading: 1972), p. 122.

102
Brevet Major O. H. S. G. Anson,
With HM 9th Lancers during the Indian Mutiny
(London: 1896), p. 201.

103
David Bromfield (ed.),
Lahore to Lucknow: The Indian Mutiny Journal of Arthur Moffat Lang
(London: 1992), p. 121.

104
Bahadur Shah was tried for rebellion, treason and murder by a military commission on 27 January 1858. He was found guilty on all counts but, in view of Hodson’s promise, he was exiled for life to Rangoon where he died in 1862.

105
The issue remains contentious, with Indian historians tending to believe her assertion that she had no means of preventing the atrocity. See David,
Mutiny,
PP. 351-2.

106
Moon,
British Conquest,
pp. 769-70.

107
Woodruff,
Guardians,
p. 25.

108
Eric Stokes,
The Peasant Armed: The Indian Rebellion of 1857
(Oxford: 1986), p. 3.

109
Major F. G. Cardew,
Hodson’s Horse 1857-1922
(London: 1928), p. 264.

110
Quoted in Mary Lutyens,
The Lyttons in India
(London: 1979), p. 84.

111
Sir Walter Lawrence,
The India We Served
(London: 1928), p. 125.

112
Ian Copland,
The British Raj and the Indian Princes: Paramountcy in Western India, 1857-1930
(London: 1987), p. 5.

113
Keay,
India,
p. 447.

114
James,
Raj,
p. 309.

115
Quoted in Woodruff,
Guardians,
p. 173.

116
Woodruff,
Guardians,
p. 361.

117
G. J. Alder,
British India’s Northern Frontier 1865-95
(London: 1963), pp. 2-3.

118
Winston Churchill,
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War
(London: 1899), p. 24.

119
Churchill,
Malakand,
p. 13.

1
Quoted in Moon,
British Conquest,
p. 804.

2
Field Marshal Lord Wolseley,
The Story of a Soldier’s Life
(London: 1903), I, p. 14.

3
Quoted in Wilson and Crowley,
Infantry Regiments of Surrey,
p. 30.

4
Precise numbers remain uncertain. The soldiers were drafts for the 12th Lancers, and the 2nd, 6th, 12th, 43rd, 73rd, 74th and 91st Foot, bound for the Kaffir War in South Africa. Despite oft-repeated assertions, sadly some of the women and children were lost.

5
John Fraser,
Sixty Years in Uniform
(London: 1939), p. 77.

6
Wolseley,
Story,
I, pp. 8-9.

7
Perkes Papers, National Army Museum, 7505-57.

8
Diary of Lieutenant Charles Scott, National Army Museum, 8405-22.

9
Papers of Lieutenant Kendall Coghill, National Army Museum, 7207-4-1.

10
Scott Diary, National Army Museum, 8405-22.

11
Quoted in Dennis Kincaid,
British Social Life in India
(London: 1938), p. 142.

12
Field Marshal Lord Roberts,
Forty-One Years in India
(London: 1938), p. 2.

13
Major Colin Robbins, ‘Overland to India: By Donkey’, in
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research,
Vo.l 78 (2000), p. 109.

14
Quoted in Michael Edwardes,
Bound to Exile
(Newton Abbot: 1972), p. 9.

15
Corneille,
Journal,
p. 26.

16
Corneille,
Journal,
p. 27.

17
James Lunt (ed.),
Scarlet Lancer
(London: 1964), pp. 119-20.

18
Corneille,
Journal,
p. 25.

19
Bayley,
Reminiscences,
pp. 203-4.

20
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 26.

21
Lieutenant General Sir Francis Tuker (ed.),
The Chronicle of Private Henry Metcalfe
(London: 1953), p. 16.

22
Pat Hayward (ed.),
Surgeon Henry’s Trifles
(London: 1970), p. 101.

23
Quoted in Kincaid,
Social Life,
p. 85.

24
Frank Richards,
Old Soldier Sahib
(London: 1936), pp. 64-5.

25
Callwell,
Stray Recollections,
I, p.60.

26
Corneille,
Journal,
p. 28.

27
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 9.

28
Lieutenant Colonel W. Gordon-Alexander,
Recollections of a Highland Subaltern
(London: 1888), p. 12. The 93rd was initially bound for China but was diverted to Calcutta. The miscreants soon forgot about their threat, and proved ‘smart, good soldiers’ in action.

29
Corneille,
Journal,
p. 30.

30
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 9.

31
Peter Quennell (ed.),
The Memoirs of William Hickey
(London: 1960), p. 90.

32
Ian Gordon,
Soldier of the Raj: The Life of Richard John Purvis, 1789-1868
(Barnsley: 1994), p. 51.

33
George Elers,
Memoirs of George Elers
(London: 1903), p. 180. For the remarkable story of Colonel Kirkpatrick’s family see William Dalrymple,
White Mughals
(London: 2002).

34
Quoted in Kincaid,
Social Life,
p. 84.

35
Violet Dickinson (ed.),
Miss Eden’s Letters
(London: 1919), p. 260.

36
Wolseley,
Story,
I, p. 16.

37
Wolseley,
Story,
I, p. 19.

38
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
pp. 7-8.

39
Philip Meadows-Taylor,
The Story of My Life
(London: 1919), p. 16.

40
John Shipp,
The Paths of Glory
(London: 1969), p. 36.

41
Kincaid,
Social Life,
pp. 69-71.

42
Hayward,
Surgeon Henry’s Trifles,
p. 104.

43
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 11.

44
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock,
p. 12.

45
Wolseley,
Story,
I, pp. 238, 241-2.

46
Lieutenant Colonel A. T. Allan, HM’s 81st, quoted in Thomas Carter,
Curiosities of War and Military Studies
(London: 1860), pp. 63-4.

47
Leslie Southwick,
The Price Guide to Antique Edged Weapons
(Woodbridge, Suffolk: 1982), items 216 and 282. The two swords were valued at more than £20,000 in 1982.

48
Alan Harfield, ‘The Loss of the Guildford’, in
Durbar: Journal of the Indian Military Collectors’ Society,
Vol. 9, No. 3, 1992, pp. 6-11.

49
Lunt (ed.),
Scarlet Lancer,
p. 125.

50
Forbes-Mitchell,
Reminiscences,
pp. 6-8.

51
Alexander Hamilton,
A New Account of the East Indies,
2 vols, (New Delhi: 1995) II, p. 12.

52
Quoted in Kincaid,
British Social Life,
p. 90.

53
Lady MacGregor (ed.),
The Life and Opinions of Maj Gen Sir Charles
Metcalf MacGregor
(London: 1888), I, p. 14.

54
Quoted in Kincaid,
British Social Life,
p. 90.

55
Jane Vansittart (ed.),
From Minnie, with Love
(London: 1974), p. 51. Maria Lydia Blane (always known as Minnie) was married to Captain Archie Wood and had three children but found Archie’s spendthrift ways and the climate too much for her, and returned to England, pregnant and alone, in 1861. She later married happily.

56
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 3.

57
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
I, p. 15.

58
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 27.

59
Diary of Sergeant Richard Hardcastle RHA, British Library Oriental and India Office Collections, Photo Mss Eur 332.

60
Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
p. 25.

61
Sergeant Thomas Duckworth letter, National Army Museum 1990-06-391-1.

62
Colonel Armine S. H. Mountain,
Memoirs and Letters
(London: 1857), p. 83.

63
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
pp. 16-17.

64
‘Lieutenant Walter Campbell 1812-1871’, in Michael Brander (ed.),
The Sword and the Pen
(London: 1989), p. 69.

65
Captain Innes Munro,
Operations on the Coromandel Coast
(London: 1789), p. 190.

66
Corneille,
Journal,
pp. 48-50.

67
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
pp. 18, 80.

68
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
p. 45.

69
James Williams letters, National Army Museum 6404-74-17. Williams gives no rank or regimental designation, but seems to have been a junior officer.

70
J. Martin Bladen Neill,
Recollections of Four Years Service in the East
(London: 1845), p. 23.

71
Richards,
Old Soldier,
p. 73.

72
Yule and Burnell,
Hobson-Jobson,
p. 570.

73
John Dunlop,
Mooltan
(London: 1849), no page nos.

74
Munro,
Coromandel Coast,
pp. 19-20.

75
Clark Kennedy,
Victorian Soldier,
p. 43.

76
Dunlop,
Mooltan.

77
Quoted in Leigh Maxwell,
My God: Maiwand
(London: 1979), p. 61.

78
Quoted in Hector Bolitho,
The Galloping Third
(London: 1963), pp. 137-8.

79
‘Private Charles Goodward’, in Brander (ed.),
Sword and Pen,
pp. 97-8.

80
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
P. 79.

81
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
p. 114. A
bandy
is a carriage or bullock cart.

82
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
pp. 119-20.

83
R. G. Wilberforce,
An Unrecorded Chapter of the Indian Mutiny
(London: 1894), pp. 79-80.

84
Captain Crawford McFall,
With the Zhob Valley Field Force
(London: 1891), p. 16.

85
Tuker (ed.),
Chronicle,
pp. 16-17.

86
Forbes-Mitchell,
Reminiscences,
pp. 29-30.

87
Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
p. 44.

88
Richards,
Old Soldier,
pp. 112-13.

89
Fraser,
Forty Years,
p. 113.

90
Bayley,
Reminiscences,
p. 61.

91
Wilberforce,
Unrecorded Chapter,
p. 81.

92
Bancroft,
From Recruit to Staff-Sergeant,
p. 8.

93
J. J. Cotton,
List of Inscriptions on Tombs and Monuments in Madras,
(Madras: 1905), p. 79.

94
Fyler,
History of the 50th,
p. 241; De Rhe-Philipe and Irving,
Soldiers of the Raj,
p. 86.

95
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 29.

96
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
pp. 131-2.

97
Bayley,
Reminiscences,
pp. 53-4.

98
Munro,
Coromandel Coast,
p. 190.

99
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company,
pp. 25-6.

100
Ian Gordon,
Soldier of the Raj,
p. 67.

101
Maj. Le Mesurier,
Kandahar in 1880,
(London: 1880), p. 14.

102
Russell,
Mutiny Diary,
p. 34.