Dictionary of Indian Biography/Aylmer, Fenton John

by Charles Edward Buckland

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AYLMER, FENTON JOHN (1862–)

Born April 5, 1862: son of Captain F. J. Aylmer, 97th regt.: educated privately and at R.M.A., Woolwich: entered the Royal Engineers, 1880: served in India since 1883: in the Burma war, 1886–87: the Hazara expedition 1891: in the Hunza expedition, 1891–2: Isazai expedition, 1892: Chitral expedition, 1895: at the storming of the Nilt Fort in 1891–2: he obtained his V.C., and Brevet Majority: Colonel R.E.