Dictionary of Indian Biography/Chalmers, Robert

by Charles Edward Buckland

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CHALMERS, ROBERT ( ? –1878)

Lt-Colonel : joined the Indian Army, 1849 : in the mutiny his regt., the 1st Oudh Irregular Infantry, mutinied : he narrowly escaped to Allahabad : joined a regt. proceeding to relieve Cawnpur : carried back news of the massacre at Cawnpur, 44 miles, to Allahabad, through country teeming with a hostile population : was in Havelock's engagements about Cawnpur, in the relief of Lucknow, in its subsequent defence, the fighting at Alambagh, and the final capture of Lucknow, in March, 1858 : died, which commanding the 14th Bengal Lancers, Aug. 11, 1878.