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Mr. Scott, an officer of the Madras Army, swam on shore, but died a moment after reaching it from exhaustion.
** Madras Army
* Madras Engineer Group ( MEG ), regiment of the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army
His son John Murray-Aynsley was the father of 1 ) Charles Murray-Aynsley ( 1821 – 1901 ), a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy ; 2 ) George Herbert Murray-Aynsley ( 1826 – 1887 ), a Major-General in the Madras Army, and 3 ) Hugh Murray-Aynsley, a New Zealand politician.
The army in the Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay & Madras functioned as respective Presidency Army until April 1895, when the Presidency Armies were unified into a single Indian Army.
Of the native infantry battalions, only the Madras Sappers survive in their original form in the Indian Army but they no longer celebrate Assaye as it has been declared a repugnant battle honour by the Government of India.
In contrast, the Madras Army and Bombay Army were " more localized, caste-neutral armies " that " did not prefer high-caste men.
In addition, the Bengal Army was paid less than the Madras and Bombay Armies, which compounded the fears over pensions.
Governor-General Lord Dalhousie saw this as an anomaly, since all sepoys of the Madras and Bombay Armies ( plus six " General Service " battalions of the Bengal Army ) had accepted an obligation to serve overseas if required.
* The rebellion was put down with the help of other Indian soldiers drawn from the Madras Army, the Bombay Army and the Sikh regiments, 80 % of the East India Company forces were Indian ;
Once having pilfered the stone from its sacred home around 1750, perhaps after untold years of patient planning, the deserter fled to Madras ( now Chennai ) where he would find protection with the British Army, as well as a buyer.
* Sarah ( 1817 – 1900 ), who married Thomas Bowes Forster ( 1802 – 1870 ), Lieutenant-Colonel in the Madras Army.
After a very brief interval as Governor of Natal and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Transvaal Province and High Commissioner for South Eastern Africa with effect from 7 March 1881, Roberts ( having become a baronet on 11 June 1881 ) was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army on 16 November 1881.
Intending to join the British Indian Army, he obtained a commission in the Madras Light Cavalry, but never took up his post, instead being called to the bar in 1852.
After India's independence, the Nair Brigade of the Travancore State Force, was merged into the Indian Army and became a part of the 9th Battalion Madras Regiment, the oldest battalion in the Indian Army.
Stringer Lawrence who established the Madras Army with Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah, the Nawab of Carnatic
The 102nd Regiment of Foot ( Royal Madras Fusiliers ) was an infantry regiment, originally raised by the British East India Company and absorbed by the British Army in 1862.
Between the years 1858 and 1861, following the uprising commonly known as the Indian Mutiny, the regiment was taken into the British Army as the 1st Madras European Fusiliers regiment.
Born the son of James Shaw, an Inspector General of Hospitals in Madras, and Ann Hay, Shaw was 25 years old, and a captain in the 18th Regiment ( later The Royal Irish Regiment ), British Army during the New Zealand Land Wars.

Madras and |
File: Matisse. mme-matisse-madras. jpg | Madras Rouge, 1907, Barnes Foundation
The binding is from Indian brocade silk brought home by the Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis | 2nd Lord Clive, who served as Governor of Madras, 1799 to 1803.
Battle of Madras | Surrender of the City of Madras in 1746 to de La Bourdonnais, by Jacques François Joseph Swebach.
Krishna and Rukmini, Government Museum, Chennai | Government Museum Madras, India
| PLACE OF BIRTH = Paramakudi, Madras State, India
| PLACE OF BIRTH = Madurai, Madras Presidency, British India
< gallery > File: Mallika-sarabhai-during-performance-saarang-2011-iit-madras. jpg | Mallika Sarabhai, Saarang 2011, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras .</ gallery >
| PLACE OF BIRTH = Chempazhanthy, Madras Presidency, British India ( now India )
| PLACE OF BIRTH = Madras, India
Silver rupee using Mughal era | Mughal conventions, in fact minted by the British East India Company Madras Presidency between 1817-35.
Arthur Wellesley being received in durbar at the Chepauk Palace Madras by Azim al-Daula Nawab of the Carnatic 18th February 1805. jpg | Azim ud-Daula
According to History of Punjab: " There is no doubt that the Kambojas, Daradas, Kekaya | Kaikayas, Madras, Pauravas, Yaudheya s, Malavas, Saindhavas and Kuru ( kingdom ) | Kuru s had jointly contributed to the heroic tradition and composite culture of ancient Punjab ".
" The Kambojas | Kambhojas on the Indos ( Indus ), the Taksas of Taxila | Taksila, the Madras and Kathas ( Kathaioi ) on Akesines ( Chenab ), the Malla ( Malloi ) on the Hydraotis ( Iravati or Ravi River | Ravi ), the Tugras on the Hesidros ( Sutlej ) had formed important populations of the Punjab in the pre-Alexandrian age and stubbornly opposed Alexander the Great | Alexander on the Indus and, in spite of his victories on Hydaspes ( Jhelum River | Jhelum ) and Sakala ( Sangala, Sialkot ), had finally led him and his soldiers to abandon his planned conquest of India and retire to Babylonia ".
This image is from Jerdon's 1843-47 Illustrations of Indian Ornithology and was made by S. N. Ward of the Madras Civil Service, the foliage was added by Captain S. Best of the Madras Engineer Group | Madras Engineers.
T. Schaya Iangar, a Madras University Professor, taken in the 1860s by a photographer from the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai | Madras School of Industrial Arts

Madras and Sappers
Madras Sappers, Bengal Sappers and the Bombay Sappers.
* Lieutenant Subramanian, Queen Victoria ’ s Own Madras Sappers and Miners ( posthumous award )
Assaye elephant emblem awarded to the Madras Sappers
Category: History of the Madras Sappers
M5 Stuart light tanks of 7 Cavalry were moved in dismantled conditions through Srinagar and winched across bridges while two field companies of the Madras Sappers converted the mule track across Zoji La into a jeep track.
* Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
Sankey tank was constructed by Col. Richard Hieram Sankey ( RE ) of the Madras Sappers Regiment, in 1882, to meet the water supply demands of Bangalore.
' My father, Paul Ernest Prince, was an officer in the Queen's own Madras Sappers and Miners, his commission signed by Victoria's own hand.
In India the Madras Sappers & Miners of the Madras Engineer Group wear dark-blue visorless shakos as part of their ceremonial uniform.
He also serves the Madras Engineering Group ( Madras Sappers corps of engineers ) Indian army as junior commissioned officer.
Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
A prominent role was played by the Madras Sappers in the capture of the Fort and subsequent development of the cantonment and the city.

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