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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Bodinayakanur Sri Kamala Ammal.

daughter who is married to Zamindar of Saptur. Address: Bodinayakanur. Madura District, Madras Presidency.

Boileau, Colonel Frank Ridley Farrer; Colonel, General Staff 8rd Division; b. 1867: s. of Colonel F. W. Boileau, C.C., and Mrs. Boileau, of Camberley; m. 1902. Mary Aurora, d, of Rev. Subdean Tudor of Exeter; three s. Educ.: Cheltenham Coll; Joined Roval Engineers as 2nd Lieut, 1887: served in India, 1889-96; afterwards in Central Africa as Assistant Commissioner Anglo-German Boundary Commission, South African War; passed Staff College; D.A.A.G. at War Office, 1902-5; Professor, Staff College, Quetta, India, 1906-10. Address: Culford Camp. Club: Naval and Military.

Boileau, Col. Francis William. F.B. 1891, I.C.S.: b. 1835; s. of late Maj.-Gen. F. B. Boileau; m. 1861, Mary Letitia, d. of late Rev. William Bradford; Entered army, 1855; Col. 1855; served Indian Mutiny, 1857-59; Abyssinia, 1867-68; Afghan War 1878-79. Address: Elstowe, Camberley, Surrey.

Bois, Sir Stanley, Kt. cr. 1905; partner in the firm of Bois Bros. & Co., merchants and commission agents, Colombo; b. London, 1864; s. of Henry and Francis Elizabeth Bois, m. 1895, Isa Gordon, d. of Gabriel Ross of Sutherlandshire, N.C.; one d. Educ.; South Penge Park College, London. Spent two years in the city of London in a shipbroker’s office before coming to the East: arrived in Ceylon, 1882, and joined the staff of a firm whose business his brother and he ultimately acquired; acted as Member of the Municipal Council, Colombo; Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce for three consecutive years; Member of Legislative Council, 1903; Commissioner-General for Ceylon to the World’s Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A. 1904; Acting European M.I.A., 1906, and Mercantile M.L.C., 1910. Recreations: music and motoring. Address: Hunupitiya Cottage, Colombo, Ceylon. Clubs: Conservative; Colombo: Hill, Newara Eliya.

Boisragon, Lt.-Col. Guy Hudleston, V.C.; Lt.-Colonel, 5th Goorkhas, Frontier Force; b. Kohat, Punjab, 1864; e.s. of Maj.-Gen. Henry F. M. Boisragon. late Commandant of the 4th Sikhs, Punjab Frontier Force; m. Anna, d. of late William Hudleston of the Madras Civil Service; Educ.: Charterhouse and Royal Military Coll. Sandhurst; Joined Lincolnshire (10th) Regt., 1885; joined 5th Goorkhas, 1887; Captain, 1896; Major, 1903; served Hazara Expedition, 1888; Hazara Expedition, 1891; and with the two Miranzai Expeditions in 1891, in the first expedition as orderly officer to the general officer in command; served in the operations in Hunza-Nagar country 1891-92, including capture of the Nilt Fort; served in Waziristan Expedition under Sir William Lockhart, 1894-95; Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.-General Punjab command, 1895-96; served in operations on North-West Frontier, 1897-98; operations in the Sarnana and Kurram valley, 1897; First Expedition 1897-98; reconnaissance of the Kharmana defile and action of 7 Nov. 1897; operations against the Khani Khel Chamkhannis. Address: c/o H.S. King & Co., 45 Pall Mall, S.W. Club: Junior Naval and Military.

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