| John Tulloch Nash

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| John Tulloch Nash Volunteering in India — Chapter 18 (1893)

Above all — how far above, words silenced by sorrow cannot say — he was aware of the sad fact that a considerable number of the Corps, in the flower of their youth or. manhood, had lost their lives, while a larger number still shed their blood, in helping to crush a Mutiny that in unparalleled treachery, and tragical infamy, has indelibly tarnished, and for ever blood-stained, one of the saddest pages in the saddest annals of the whole world; and over the ever-lamentable record of which, alas! the veil of oblivion can never be drawn.
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| John Tulloch Nash Volunteering in India — Chapter 18 (1893)

The Gazette of the 23rd March, 27th April, 11th May, 6th and 13th July, 13th August, 12th and 19th October, 23rd November, 1858, and 11th and 18th January and 9th March, 1859, all that the Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry have borne a distinguished part in the several operations therein recounted.
“Long marches, exposure, fatigue, and harassing patrol and picket duties have from the first fallen to the lot of this young Corps, and they have borne the whole in a truly soldier-like spirit.
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