Dictionary of Indian Biography/Aitken, Robert Hope Moncrieff

by Charles Edward Buckland

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AITKEN, ROBERT HOPE MONCRIEFF ( ? –1887)

Of the 13th Bengal N.I. : served in the Panjab campaign, 1848–9 : in the mutiny, at Lucknow, in the operations before Cawnpur, and in the Oudh campaign, 1858 : gained the V.C. for acts of gallantry during the defence of the Lucknow Residency : Inspr-General of Police in Oudh : Colonel 1876 : died Sep. 18, 1887.