Sometimes as Atkin or Atkins (medal roll, census) 1881 at New Barracks, Alverstoke, Hants. 1901 at Canterbury Barracks with his 4 children. Possibly London by 1904.

father: William Adkin (1807-1849), mother: Mary Priest (remarried, John Bruce). Married Minnie Eliza Irons in 1865, Dover (d.1894, Canterbury). Children: Walter Albert (1886), Nellie (1888), Leonard William (1890), Sydney Victor Laurence (1891, Corporal West Kent Rgt., mentioned in despatches WWI). William remarried 1904.

Lieutenant Feb 1876. Afghan war, served for a short time in the first phase, taking command of the Gatling Gun unit in the Kurrum Valley, attached to Field Battery to Ali Khel and Shalifzan, service cut short by typhoid fever Jun 1879, recovered at Peiwar Kotal and invalided to England. Egypt 1882, Aide de Camp to Sir Garnet Wolseley, present at El Magfar, Tel-el-Mahuta, Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir. 1883 Aide de Camp to father Sir John Miller Adye, Governor of Gibraltar. Sudan 1884-85, on staff of Lord Wolseley. 1889-93 Staff Captain RA Thames District, also wrote (secretly) as military correspondent for a London newspaper, and occasionally for 'The Nineteenth Century'. Major Oct 1893, command of an RA company to Gibraltar, then invalided home for a year (fever), rejoined company at Malta. 1898 Brigade Major Royal Artillery at Portsmouth. South Africa Oct 1899 - Aug 1902, aided raising of South African Light Horse and Assistant Adjutant-General for Colonial Forces, commanded action at Kheis Drift. 1903-06 command of Artillery at Mauritius, 1906 General Staff Officer Malta. 1907-11 GSOI in the Department of the Director of Military Operations at the War Office. Jun 1911 Major-General, retired on half-pay. 1912-15 appointed Major-General in charge of Administration, Eastern Command. 1915 appointed Inspector-General of Communications Salonika force, 1916 assistant to General Altham at Alexandria, then Nile command, then Deputy Adjutant-General Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Returned to England Mar 1918, POW Branch at War Office and repatriation of POWs on continent. Retired Jun 1919, took up employment in Ministry of Pensions until 1923.

Parents: Major-General Sir John Miller Adye GCB, RA (1819-1900) and Mary Cordelia Stopford. Many other family members also in RA back to Major Stephen Payne Adye (entered RA 1757), Son: John Frederic (entered RA 1919).

1885 Army List p.172, 194. Author 'Soldiers & Others I Have Known' 1925.

Naiq Lall Must on bronze star. Kandahar clasp not confirmed.

Joined Indian army 20 Dec 1859, Lieutenant 3rd Sikhs Nov 1861. Umbeyla 1863, Hazara 1868, Jowaki 1877 (IGS 1854 clasps Umbeyla, NW Frontier, Jowaki). Joined Afghan War in second campaign, Oct 1879 action at Shutagardan, Sherpur in Dec. Promoted to Field Rank 20 Dec 1879 and Wing Commander in his corps. Three times mentioned in despatches. Lt. Colonel Nov 1880, commandent of his corps Dec 1887. retired 18 Mar 1889.

Shadbolt Historical p.309-310. 1885 Army List p.450. IGS and Afghan madal (2 clasps) sold at Spinks Mar 2005.

Born in Neemuch, India. Educated at Lasswade Parish School, Dalkeith Grammar and Edinburgh Academy, studied medicine in Edinburgh before entering East India Company as Assistant Surgeon, Bengal Medical Service 1858. Collected botanical specimens and plant-based products from India, Afghanistan and sent them to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1862. FRCS Ed. 1863, MRCP Ed. 1868. Surgeon 1870. British Commissioner, Ladakh 1872; Surgeon-Major 1873. Afghan War, accompanied Lord Roberts into Kurram Valley 1878, serving with 29th Punjab Regiment, Botanist to Force (1879-1880). Royal Society of Edinburgh 1881, Royal Society of London 1883. Awarded a CIE (Companion of the Indian Empire) 1883. Member of Delimitation Commission settling boundary of northwest Afghanistan 1884. Retired 1888. Stood as Liberal Unionist candidate for Clackmannanshire and Kinrossshire in 1892.

Son of Major James Aitchison, HEICS, (1793-1848) and Mary Turner (1801-1882); uncle John William Turner (1790-1835). Married Eleanor Carmichael Craig (1840-1897), Newbattle, Midlothian, 1862.

Shadbolt v.1 p342. Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 p.160; British Museum biogs. Nature (58, 1898). Evening Mail (3 Oct 1898). Manchester Courier (10 Oct 1898).
Author: 'Classified List of Diseases English and Urdu', 'Flora of the Jhelum District' (1863), 'Catalogue of Plants of Punjab and Sindh' (1869), 'Handbook of the Trade Products of Leh, with the Statistics of the Trade from 1867 to 1872 Inclusive' (1872), 'On the Flora of the Kurram Valley, etc.' Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany (1880), 'The Botany of the Afghan Delimitation Commission' Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd ser., Botany 3 (1887), 'Zoology of the Afghan Delimitation Commission' (1889), 'Products of Western Afghanistan and North Eastern Persia' (1890).

Lieutenant Dec 1859, Captain Aug 1872. 1879 Zulu war, present at Ulundi, served with A/6 RA. Major Jan 1880, Afghan war with C/3 RA at Safed Sang. By Dec 1880 serving with 9/11 RA. Lieutenant-Colonel Sep 1885.

1885 Army List p.181, 199.

Farm servant, enlisted 92nd Highlanders at Dundee Feb 1868. Afghan War Mar 1879 - May 1880. First Boer War, Transvaal. Appointed Piper Apr 1883. Discharged at Belfast Feb 1889. Long Service Good Conduct Medal.

Married Jane Fraser (m.1882).

British Medals Forum.

Service in Afghan War not officially confirmed (medal for sale only item). Entered Indian Civil Service Mar 1872 Indo-European telegraph department. Assistant Superintendent of Police Sep 1878. Superintendent Nov 1884. Inspector-General of Prisons, Bombay, Apr 1901 until retirement, 1909.

Parents: Henry Alexander (1803-1877) and Lady Louisa Juliana Knox (c.1820-1896, dau. of 2nd Earl Ranfurly. Married (1883) Mary Stuart Erskine (d.1928). Daughter: Constance Mary Alexander (1885-1956, unmarr).

Afghan War Medal for sale by Our Heritage Medals (Oct 2008). India List 1905 p.425. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine vol XXV no.3 1968, p.156. The Times 31 Jan 1923.

Ensign 38th Foot Dec 1869. 3rd Foot Sep 1871. Lieutenant Oct 1871. Indian Staff Corps probationer Jun 1874, Lieutenant May 1875. 16th Bengal Cavalry. Squadron officer 4th Bengal Cavalry Jan 1879. Afghan war. Captain Feb 1882. Major Feb 1890. Temporary Lt.-Colonel Nov 1895, Lt.-Col Feb 1896. Brevet Colonel Jan 1900. China 1900 with 16th Bengal Lancers (DSO). To Unemployed Supernumerary List Jun 1906. Commandant on the Line of Communication 1914.

Parents: George Henry Minto Alexander (1811-1854, HEICS and Bengal Civil Service) and Henrietta Ruth Maria Read (1818-1895). Married (1875, Bengal) Mary Georgina Carter Brind (1853-1930).

1861 census: 10 Upper Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London (RG9/6/19/41). 1881 census: 18 Upper Gloucester Place, St. Marylebone, London (RG11/156/112/13). 1911 census: Southfield Lodge, 48 Christchurch Road, Winchester.