Charles Boswell Norman

“ Before he had completed his seventeenth year he received a direct cadetship in the East India Company's military service, and returning to India he was appointed ensign in the 27th Bengal native infantry on 4 August 1854. On the outbreak of the Mutiny of the Bengal army in May 1857 the 27th proved unfaithful, and McQueen, who had been promoted lieutenant on 3 June in that year, was attached to the 4th Punjab rifles, one of the newly raised frontier regiments, which had been ordered by Sir John Lawrence to proceed to Delhi to assist in the siege of that fortress. ”

“ Ross, who was promoted lieutenant-general in 1897, was created C.B. in 1887 and K.C.B. in 1905. After his retirement he lived at 19 Hamilton Road, Ealing, where he died on 22 June 1910; he was buried in Ealing cemetery. He married on 1 Oct. 1870, at Simla, his first cousin, Emma Walwyn, daughter of Lieutenant-general George Edward Gowan, C.B., colonel commandant of the royal (Bengal) horse artillery. An only child, Alexander William, joined the Indian Forest Department. ”

“ Henry Lawrence [q. v.] , and he was appointed to raise a battery of artillery from among the disbanded men of the Sikh army. He was then hurried off to the Deccan in command of a battery of artillery in the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad, but was soon recalled to a similar post in the Gwalior contingent. In 1851 Olpherts applied to be posted to a battery at Peshawur, where he was under the command of Sir Colin Campbell [q. v.] and took part in the expedition against the frontier tribes. ”