Dictionary of Indian Biography/Badcock, Sir Alexander Robert

by Charles Edward Buckland

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BADCOCK, SIR ALEXANDER ROBERT (1844–)

Born Jan. 11, 1844: educated at Elstree and Harrow: entered the Indian Army, 1861: served in the Bhutan Campaign, 1864–5: Hazara, 1868: Perak, 1875–6: Afghanistan, 1878–80, in the Commissariat Department: at the Peiwar Kotal, and in the engagements at Kabul: Chief Commissariat officer of Sir F. Roberts' force on the Kabul-Kandahar march in Aug. 1880, and in the battle of Kandahar: made C.B.: was Q.M.G. in India, 1900: C.S.I.: K.C.B. in 1902: Member of the Council of India in 1901.